The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117
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Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839