Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
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The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCWe should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleWhat man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125