“The highest endeavour of the mind, and the highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“There is a way out of a forest, there is none out of a cloister; a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if...”

― Denis Diderot, The Nun

“Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“You say: I am not free. But I have lifted my hand and let it fall. Everyone understands that this illogical reply is an irrefutable demonstration of freedom.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.”

― Woody Allen, Side Effects

“it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“For, what other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables

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