Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
—Iris Murdoch, 1974Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535