“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”
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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.