Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811
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Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbMedication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856Animals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCNature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947