“Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“men have become the tools of their tools.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it—and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.”

― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency...”

― George Orwell, 1984

“There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct—not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

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