“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,—and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women,—before he is ready to lay the first stone of...”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Flowers are weak creatures. They are naïve. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons .”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days;”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one's thoughts be diverted by anything, by meals, by a fly...”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“the more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

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