If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904
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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCIf I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.
—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCWhat experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCIn tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BC