Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121
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We 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, 1969Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbAnyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390