It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659The various modes of religion which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.
—Edward Gibbon, 1776The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCKnowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770