The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCTo lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640