“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

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“We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or if you do not marry, you will regret both; whether you marry or you do not marry, you will regret both.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

“Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“The more parts of yourself you can afford to forget the more charm you have.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people’s lives alone, not interfering with them.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“the States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.”

― Plato, The Republic

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