Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924
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I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCSo many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCWhen you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbO flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
—Mary McCarthy, 1971There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69