Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898
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Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCThere be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862