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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919

There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.

—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979

Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.

—Harriet Jacobs, 1861

The art of invention grows young with the things invented.

—Francis Bacon, 1605

Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

—Herman Melville, 1849

God is making commerce his missionary.

—Joseph Cook, c. 1877

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

—Erich Fromm, 1947