For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879
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Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCSooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerQuarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BC