“Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

“in order to ascertain the real opinions of such, I ought rather to take cognizance of what they practised than of what they said”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison, a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

“We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“A fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out in Laura: she is like a piece of translucent glass touched by light, given a momentary radiance, not actual, not lasting.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“When we are no longer able to change a situation—just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer—we are challenged to change ourselves.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Laughter is poison to fear.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honour peereth in the meanest habit.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

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