The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC
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Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.
—Juan Manuel, 1335Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906