“The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

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“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“The happy couple that recognizes each other in love defies the universe and time; it is sufficient in itself, it realizes the absolute.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once...”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“He was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long, forgotten!”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them.”

― Charles Dickens,

“it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

― John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment

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