“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness?—why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections—an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places—which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“Under the guidance of reason we should pursue the greater of two goods and the lesser of two evils.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“No complaint, however, is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“With the help of fear and echoes and winter silences, that dog had a voice like a big bronze gong.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“When the flight attendant asked me to put it on, I told her that Superman didn't need a seat belt.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Take heed, I have often heard it said in a vulgar proverb, the wise may be instructed by a fool.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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