The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615
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The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCWhat hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903