“the true votaries of philosophy abstain from all fleshly lusts, and hold out against them and refuse to give themselves up to them”

― Plato, Phaedo

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“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Thus from the four preceding articles, the definition of law may be gathered; and it is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“If your little savage were left to fend for himself, if he kept all his natural artlessness and then united the minimal reasoning power of an infant with the violent passions of a man of thirty, he'd strangle his father and bed his mother.”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

“In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable—almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the...”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“I learned a little of beauty—enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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