“cats and dogs . . . never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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“True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“it is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to find out about our own can be no more than what other people have shewn us.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Nevertheless, so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration...”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“Windmill or no windmill . . . life would go on as it had always gone on—that is, badly.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“For True and False are attributes of Speech, not of things. And where Speech in not, there is neither Truth nor Falshood.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul”

― Plato, Symposium

“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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