I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BC
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Journeys, 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, 1957No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891