Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BC
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCThere will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCIf there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962