“supreme joy is a hundredfold greater in anticipation than in possession; its savour is greater while we wait for it than when it is ours.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.”

― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“A drug is neither moral nor immoral — it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“I've chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I'm only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my...”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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