“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 power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanour and conciliating words, I should first win their favour and afterwards their love.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“We’re the culture that cried wolf.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector.”

― Plato, The Republic

“The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one expected it to be.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I don’t think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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