When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCThere is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
—Samuel Pepys, 1662O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110