The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCA lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966