The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Law is a bottomless pit.
‘The History of John Bull’ (1712) ch. 24
Hame’s hame, be it never so hamely.
‘Law is a Bottomless Pit’ (1712)
1.79 Archilochus
The fox knows many things—the hedgehog one big one.
E. Diehl (ed.) ‘Anthologia Lyrica Graeca’ (3rd ed., 1949-52) vol. 1, p. 241, no. 103.
1.80 Archimedes 287-212 B.C.
Eureka! [I’ve got it!]
In Vitruvius Pollio ‘De Architectura’ bk. 9, preface, sect. 10
Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.
With reference to a lever, in Pappus ‘Synagoge’ bk. 8, sect. 19, proposition 10
1.81 Hannah Arendt 1906-75
It was as though in those last minutes he [Eichmann] was summing up the lessons that this
long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thoughtdefying
banality of evil.
‘Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of Evil’ (1963) ch. 15
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only
the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
‘On Revolution’ (1963) ch. 2
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
In W. H. Auden ‘A Certain World’ (1970) p. 369
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
In ‘New Yorker’ 12 September 1970, p. 88
1.82 Marquis d’Argenson (Renè Louis de Voyer d’Argenson) 1694-1757
Laisser-faire.
No interference.
‘Mèmoires’ (1736) vol. 5, p. 364.
1.83 Comte d’Argenson (Marc Pierre de Voyed d’Argenson) 1696-1764
Abbè Guyot Desfontaines: Il faut que je vive.
D’Argenson: Je n’en vois pas la nècessitè.
Desfontaines: I must live.
d’Argenson: I do not see the necessity.
In Voltaire ‘Alzire’ (1736) ‘Discours Prèliminaire’
1.84 Ludovico Ariosto 1474-1533