The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCA god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCThe legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889