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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

—Anna Jameson, 1846

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

—Plotinus, c. 255

We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood, 1972

Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

—Walter Scott, 1823

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

—Tennessee Williams, 1944

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838

A traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad—as well as good—example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

—Jonathan Swift, 1726

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

—Mencius, 300 BC