And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC
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Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.
—John Henry Poynting, 1899Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820