You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BC
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Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCOf troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCMan is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822