“I seek, in the reading of books, only to please myself by an honest diversion; or, if I study, 'tis for no other science than what treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and how to live well.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Valour is stability, not of legs and arms, but of the courage and the soul; it does not lie in the goodness of our horse or our arms but in our own.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them.”

― Plato, The Republic

“whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I never know what I mean in my telegrams—especially those I send from America. Clearness is too expensive.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“After some other mistakes, I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“The need for government in these respects arises because absolute freedom is impossible. However attractive anarchy may be as a philosophy, it is not feasible in a world of imperfect men.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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