Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
—Agnes Repplier, 1916We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 1991Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780