The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BC
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The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCFar water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbFor a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbOnce a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815Do you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCI detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954