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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599

One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1664

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

—Salvador Dalí, 1953

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

—Albert Camus, 1942

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.

—William Wycherley, 1675

Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

—Confucius, c. 515 BC

What man was ever content with one crime?

—Juvenal, c. 125

Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.

—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

I never even saw the use of the sea. Many a sad heart has it caused, and many a sick stomach has it occasioned! The boldest sailor climbs on board with a heavy soul and leaps on land with a light spirit.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1827