“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live according to nature.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

― Plato, The Republic

“It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now . . . if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had willingly abandoned those places in which she would at least have been able to see him whom she loved, for others where he had never trod.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The best books . . . are those that tell you what you know already.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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