All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255
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In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899