Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThe best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939