Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835
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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbBetter no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbThe only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984