“PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“Though this be madness, yet there is a method in't.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Speak low, if you speak love.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Real respect takes longer than official respect.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

― Confucius, Analects

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