An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC
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If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.
—Al-Hariri, c. 1108Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615