“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another.”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“For the principle of equality begets two tendencies; the one leads men straight to independence, and may suddenly drive them into anarchy; the other conducts them by a longer, more secret, but more certain road, to servitude.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; in brief, sir, study what you most affect.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

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