“The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”

― Plato, The Republic

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“My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and, whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy,—the purest joy of life.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Well, quoth Friar John, as good sit still as rise up and fall; what cannot be cured must be endured.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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