Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200
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As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCWhen the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCI am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Because 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 BCCommerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936