Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500
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I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCIt is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbEvery man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818