What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC
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Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleIn 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, 1864The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
—Hannah Arendt, 1958Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60If 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, 1623No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverb