“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language;...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“I'd rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth—but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it... but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you...”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will...”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Love those that hate you...”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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