Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600
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Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
—Federico Fellini, c. 1950Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1786