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It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.

—Anaxandrides, c. 376

Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.

—Simone Weil, 1943

Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.

—T. H. Huxley, 1895

What 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, 1830

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

—John Huston, 1950

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

—Voltaire, 1723

Traveling 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, 1989

He knows the water best who has waded through it.

—Danish proverb

Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

—Erasmus, 1515

It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.

—Adelle Davis, 1951

The brightest light burns the quickest.

—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900