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Cities are the abyss of the human species.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.

—William Bradford, 1630

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

—Albert Camus, c. 1940

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

—Walter Bagehot, 1863

Life is no way to treat an animal.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879

Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

—Louisa May Alcott, 1863

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804

Big head, little wit.

—French proverb