“Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“My God, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and, however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“I'll tell you . . . what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter—as I did!”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“All changes even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves: we must die to one life before we can enter into another!”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“And now we are all scattered, and for many a long day loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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