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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than to make men understand.

—Niccolò MachiavelliDiplomat, Historian & Philosopher

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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Culture eats strategy for breakfast, especially when it comes to innovation.

—Victor HwangTheorist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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The world is a dream, why wake up?

—Ikkyu SojunPoet

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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What we call peace is nothing but a temporary truce.

—Ingeborg BachmannPoet & Writer

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Hell is other people.

—Jean-Paul SartrePhilosopher, Novelist & Playwright

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Writing is the place where language falls ill.

—Diamela EltitNovelist, Essayist & Theorist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Let the unworthy bark, the lion does not heed the noise of dogs.

—Nef'iPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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The little knows nothing of the great.

—ZhuangziPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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If you're not careful, newspapers will have you hating the oppressed and loving the oppressors.

—Malcolm XActivist & Minister

Post-War ERA • North America

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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, to truth, we can be deaf.

—Marcel ProustNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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A person doesn't die when he should, but when he can.

—Gabriel García MárquezNovelist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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Families are like little countries: they have their own language, their own culture.

—Taiye SelasiAuthor

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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Life is a chronic illness with short periods of remission.

—Armonía SomersNovelist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

—Oscar WildePlaywright & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war.

—Ernest HemingwayNovelist & Journalist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint.

—Alexis de TocquevilleScientist & Historian

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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I can resist everything except temptation.

—Oscar WildePlaywright & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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