“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking...”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all-sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty!”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions!”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The death-penalty inflicted upon criminals may be looked on in much the same light: it is in order that we may not fall victims to an assassin that we consent to die if we ourselves turn assassins.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Strive to love your neighbor actively and indefatigably.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy, exactly as to play the courtier for such purposes is a cardinal sin against the people under other forms of government.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Noble dragons don’t have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”

― Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge

“It is hard to fight against impulsive desire. Whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of the soul.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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