It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376
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Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbYour body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900