Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886
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You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCEvery gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCTo put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BCYouth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982