“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re seventeen.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

― Confucius, Analects

“There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.”

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

“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“we cannot for long lead the cause of peace and freedom, if we ever cease to set the pace here at home.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

“what a real friend is will never be revealed; for he is, as it were, a second self.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship

“Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you—it's a wall that an active you runs up against.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“the only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradations we surmount the force of local prejudice, as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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