The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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I have thousands of opinions still – but that is down from millions – and, as always, I know nothing.
Author : Harold Brodkey
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Author : Michel de Montaigne
It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.
Author : Breyten Breytenbach
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
Author : Ben Kingsley
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Author : Virginia Woolf
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.
Author : Voltaire
