Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693
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The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCWhat man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Medication 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 proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962