“For the function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil; whereas, inasmuch as all things morally wrong are evil, trickery prefers the evil to the good.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

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“the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“The world is idea.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer...”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Something wicked this way comes”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“So little knows any, but God alone, to value right the good before him, but perverts best things to worst abuse, or to their meanest use.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't bum together, I'll burn alone.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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