“If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.”

― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“The earth is a great piece of stupidity.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“that war is just which is necessary, and arms are hallowed when there is no other hope but in them.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I am never merry when I hear sweet music.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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