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Every country has the government it deserves.

—Joseph de Maistre, 1811

Better no law than no law enforced.

—Danish proverb

Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.

—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856

Animals are good to think with.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.

—Winnie Mandela, 1985

The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.

—Izaak Walton, 1653

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850

Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

—George Washington, 1783

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947