Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175
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The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCWhoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCIt is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991