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 | If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 16 likes |
 | Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way, and the fools know it. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 14 likes |
 | The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 11 likes |
 | All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 7 likes |
 | There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 7 likes |
 | The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 6 likes |
 | If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, “The same as everywhere!” — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 4 likes |
 | Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 4 likes |
 | The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | The similarity between Christ and Socrates consists essentially in their dissimilarity. Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 2 likes |
 | Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. — Italo Calvino, 1923-1985, Italian writer 1 likes |
 | People like you to be something, preferably what they are. — John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962 1 likes |
 | No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 1 likes |
 | The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
 | If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 1 likes |
 | All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 1 likes |
 | To think like everybody else is a recipe for prosperity and stupidity. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself. — Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Bohemian writer 1 likes |
Personal Stories
 | Now she is like everyone else. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President (at the funeral of his daughter Anne, who had Down Syndrome, 1948) 5 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Dog does not eat dog. Canis caninam non est. 23 likes |
 | If we may compare small things with great… Si parva licet componere magnis. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 15 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | As ever, god brings like and like together! Ως αεί τον όμοιον άγει θεός ως τον όμοιον. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Odyssey XVII 6 likes |
 | He who sees the present has seen everything that ever was and will be. All things are of one kind and form. Ο τα νυν ιδών πάντα εώρακεν, όσα τε εξ αϊδίου εγένετο και όσα εις το άπειρον έσται. Πάντα γαρ ομογενή και ομοειδή. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor 1 likes |
Proverbs
 | At night all cats are grey. 7 likes |
| Those who resemble each other, assemble together Qui se ressemble, s'assemble. 6 likes |
 | It takes one to know one. (first publ. Wash. Post, 7 Oct. 1951) 6 likes |
 | The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. 5 likes |
| Set a thief to catch a thief. 4 likes |
 | Birds of a feather flock together. 4 likes |
| Like master, like man. Tel maître, tel valet. 3 likes |
