Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305
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He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCThe mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCWhat man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821