So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BC
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCOur nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.
—Ken Bugul, 1982Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955