In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983
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Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCAll the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCThe traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCRebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BC