“A great man is always willing to be little.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

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“To prevent the perpetuation of poverty is necessary if the benefits of machine production are to accrue in any degree to those most in need of them; but what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable—not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“there was no teaching a truly searching person, someone who truly wanted to find, could accept. But he who had found, he could approve of any teachings, every path, every goal”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is eating us away.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant...”

― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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