Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960
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If I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So that God is always sure to be the loser.
—John Donne, 1623Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time.
—Susan Sontag, 1973To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbIn the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80