The law is not the same at morning and at night.
—George Herbert, c. 1633
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Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCLet your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCI am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968