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Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

—Susan Sontag, 1963

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936

That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.

—Ibn Gabirol, 1040

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843

What water gives, water takes away.

—Portuguese proverb

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

—Timothy Titcomb, 1859

Animals are good to think with.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

The law is far, the fist is near.

—Korean proverb

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.

—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839

Whatsoever is, is in God.

—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677