Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930
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‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784