"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced."
— Marquis de Sade
Juliette
"History is after all only a pack of tricks we play on the dead."
— Voltaire
"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization."
— Marquis de Sade
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
— Benjamin Franklin
"A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century."
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- David Hume
-dedicated to girlwithabird42, my fellow historical preservation friend :)
"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one."
— Alexander Pope
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
— Voltaire
"There is nothing new except what has been forgotten."
— Marie Antoinette
