He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverb
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Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCInventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.
—Virginia Woolf, 1924Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776