When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625
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I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCGo to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992