The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
—Mary McCarthy, 1971Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899