“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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“The part of philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Those truths which we know are very few in comparison with those which we do not know.”

― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re seventeen.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“Believe me, it is a divine thing to lend,—to owe, an heroic virtue.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroism

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“You see, poetry resembles metaphysics, one does not mind one's own, but one does not like any one else's.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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