Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCTell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
—Phyllis McGinley, 1957Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCI have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949