If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCEveryone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCNobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardEducate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse—the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.
—Cicero, c. 44 BC“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964