Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621
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The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580