To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC
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The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The Bible