“In a word, it is the best and most natural arrangement that the wisest should govern the many, when it is assured that they will govern for its profit, and not for their own.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“True, there never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“There is thus an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

“Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be interested in as many things as are necessary to fill our days.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end: wherefore the higher the end which attaches to sins in human acts, the graver the sin.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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