You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880
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It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCThere is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThe soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693