France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879
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Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
—Jeremy Bentham, c. 1832One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCDrive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904