Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, c. 1884
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCBut of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BC