“Every day travels towards death; the last only arrives at it.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Such is the influence of custom, that, where it is strongest, it not only covers our natural ignorance, but even conceals itself, and seems not to take place, merely because it is found in the highest degree.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new...”

― George Orwell, 1984

“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

“He saw her now only as a spy. Their love and his grief were relegated to the boxroom of his mind. Later, perhaps they would be dragged out, dispassionately examined, and then bitterly thrust back with other sentimental baggage he would rather forget.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“But old fools is the biggest fools there is.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

“love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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