diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index f14954c87d64..1f6657aec4d5 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -2161,6 +2161,11 @@ does he hate it.  Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to
 combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is
 self-propagating.
 		-- Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose"
+%
+	He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without
+lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light
+without darkening me.
+	-- Thomas Jefferson on patents on ideas.
 %
 	"Heard you were moving your piano, so I came over to help."
 	"Thanks.  Got it upstairs already."