“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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“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“A person who has not done one-half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Experience is the name Tuppy gives to his mistakes.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Ay me! sad hours seem long.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.”

― Jack London, The Star Rover

“We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now, that our spirit is stronger, and cannot be broken.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

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