Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverb
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Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BCThe hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
—Pericles, c. 450 BCOf all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BCIn the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000