The law is not the same at morning and at night.
—George Herbert, c. 1633
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Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIt is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCAnything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCWe are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCSome of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841