“it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“We were closely pinched to bring our wants within our means; but the jail stood over the way, and I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.”

― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“And we change people through conversation, not through censorship.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and...”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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