A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BC
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We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
—Alexander Pope, 1712The 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, 1605Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?
—Victor Hugo, 1862One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843