Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, c. 1884
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Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658If 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, 1623Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbBrains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCTime’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC