A note on our quotes

The ideas on our pieces have travelled a long way — some for more than two thousand years — passing through countless translations, notebooks, and retellings on the way to you. We present each one as it has come down to us, attributed to the thinker it belongs to.

A few are famous paraphrases, or the shortened versions the world has come to love, rather than word-for-word originals. Where that's true, we've kept the spirit of the idea over the letter of it — which is really what a dab is. Every quote is used in good faith and, to the best of our knowledge, sits in the public domain.

Think a line belongs to someone else, or would word it differently? We'd love to hear it. There's no wrong way to read a dab.