An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866
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The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
—Herodotus, c. 440 BCPunishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCRewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCAs to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCFamilies, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCWhat is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841