The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970
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Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884Reality is always the foe of famous names.
—Petrarch, 1337What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BC