“the ancestor of every action is a thought.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws

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“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“What, is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel because his painted skin contents the eye?”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Most of us are not so strong. What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms... or the memory of a brother’s smile?”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“I have long really held the opinion that the amount of noise which any one can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and therefore may be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“The free man, who lives among the ignorant, strives, as far as he can, to avoid receiving favours from them.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness which Nature has kindly placed within our reach.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“A drug is neither moral nor immoral — it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

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