Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795
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In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCOne man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580