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

― Plato, The Republic

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“And in these foure things, Opinion of Ghosts, Ignorance of second causes, Devotion towards what men fear, and Taking of things Casuall for Prognostiques, consisteth the Naturall seed of Religion”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“assuredly, the greatest tyrants over women are women.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole silent universe, and man without light, left to himself, and, as it were, lost in this corner of the universe, without knowing who has put him there, what he has come...”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“That's the reason they're called lessons . . . because they lessen from day to day.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“The isolation must be their desire; I couldn't imagine any door that wouldn't be opened by that degree of beauty.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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