"Tes amis viennent de te fusiller."
- Victor Hugo [Les Miserables], Tome IV

"I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place."
- Herodotus [The Histories], Book 1, Ch. 5

"The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing."
- Herodotus [The Histories], Book 9, Ch. 16

"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."
- Plato [Republic], Book 4, 422a

"Evil draws men together."
- Aristotle [Rhetoric], Book 1, 1362b.39 [via Proverb]

"I prefer a short life with width to a narrow one with length"
- Ibn Sina [Quoted]

"To love is to will good of the other."
- Thomas Aquinas [Summa Theologica], I-II, q.26, art. 4

"Royal authority is a noble and enjoyable position. It comprises all the good things of the world, the pleasures of the body, and the joys of the soul. Therefore, there is, as a rule, great competition for it. It rarely is handed over (voluntarily), but it may be taken away. Thus, discord ensues. It leads to war and fighting, and to attempts to gain superiority."
-Ibn Khaldun [Muqaddimah], (Rosenthal), p.123

"I think, therefore I am."
- Rene Descartes [Le Discours de la Methode]

"But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression."
- John Locke [A Letter Concerning Toleration]

"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
- Adam Smith [The Theory of Moral Sentiments], Section II, Chap. III.

"Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity."
- Immanuel Kant [The Metaphysics of Ethics] Ch. "General Division of Jurisprudence"

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
- Mary Wollstonecraft [A Vindication of the Rights of Men]

"There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. "
- Karl Marx [New York Daily Tribune], September 16, 1857

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
- Friedrich Nietzsche [Thus Spoke Zarathustra], Part 1, Chapter 11, "The New Idol"

"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
- Sigmund Freud [Quoted] (Andrews)

“Sometimes I envy the finality of death. The certainty. And I have to drive those thoughts away when I'm weak.”
- [Hostiles]

"But, there was not any qualified person who was willing to go to France."
- Lord Hisamatsu Sadakoto of Matsuyama [Quoted]

"I hope this letter finds you in poor health and a general state of ruin."
- [Guild Wars 2]