Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCEveryone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbEach night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCWe must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCI have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCThey exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BC