The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605
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Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCThe seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCNo free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCWhen arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCThe misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin Luther