What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbRevenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
—George Washington, 1781Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbIn tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658