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He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.

—Roger L’Estrange, 1692

He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

—E. R. Dodds, 1951

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

—Amiri Baraka, 1962

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.

—Henry Luttrell, 1820

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

—Albert Camus, c. 1940

It is better to live unknown to the law.

—Irish proverb

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

—Hans Zinsser, 1935

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

—Gore Vidal, 1973

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

—Aldous Huxley, 1934

Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851

A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.

—Ovid, c. 1 BC

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

—Galen, c. 175