Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, c. 1884
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Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCChildren and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728