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Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886

You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.

—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880

Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

—Nuruddin Farah, 1992

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

—Aesop, c. 600 BC

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

Gossip 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, 1876

Language 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, 1817

My 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. 1770

I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.

—Socrates, c. 420 BC

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982