An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944
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The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580The 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, 1605There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin Hubbard