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The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

Kill 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, 1939

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.

—John Lothrop Motley, 1858

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.

—Robert P. Hudson, 1983

One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.

—Juan Manuel, 1335

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

I proclaim night more truthful than the day.

—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956

All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

—David Brower, 1992

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862

The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906