Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956
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Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
—Giorgio Baglivi, c. 1696Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCRebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCAn exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCReligion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BC