Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794
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Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978