Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791
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Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThe best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbAny city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BC