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

― Plato, The Republic

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“The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“But you, that are polluted with your lusts, stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents, corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices, because you want the grace that others have, you judge it straight a thing impossible to compass wonders but by...”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a...”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“He needed to bask himself in that smile . . . in order that the chill of so many lonely hours among his books might be taken off the scholar's heart.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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