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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

—Robert Benchley, 1935

Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

—Phyllis McGinley, 1957

Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.

—Lionel Jospin, 1998

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BC

I 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, 1595

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

Imagine 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, 1669

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

—Karl Marx, 1860

A friend in power is a friend lost.

—Henry Adams, 1905

That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949