All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796
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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, 1797Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
—Pericles, c. 450 BCMemory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCI do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910