Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387
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Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCWho sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCOpposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCEvery memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCWater has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008