I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.
—Francis Bacon, 1625When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCCommunities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77