Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques Lacan
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Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BCEven diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCAs man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbThe legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BC