When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625
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I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCAnimals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.
—Leonard Cohen, 1970It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.
—Margot Asquith, 1922Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738