“Example is more powerful than precept.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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“Kurtz—it was ordered I should never betray him—it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”

― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Violence . . . is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“We all have souls of different ages”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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