“The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men...”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“But, as often happens, a crime committed with extraordinary audacity is more successful than others.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“the Controllers realized that force was no good. The slower but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopædia…”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes—what to the doctor know of lands like that?”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe: what is decreed must be; and be this so!”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“But I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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