He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692
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He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCI hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbInfectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934Is 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, 1851A 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 BCThe chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175