“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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“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“The Common Sense, is that which judges of things offered to it by the other senses.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“The sun is new again, all day”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“We can succeed only by concert.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“A person who doesn’t learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Love is a battle . . . And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work; and Brown, as though he had been really great, had a satanic gift of finding...”

― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“One drinks up a flattering lie in great gulps, whereas a bitter truth one sips drop by drop”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

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