“our labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and want.”

― Voltaire, Candide

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“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Theology sits rouged at the window and courts its favor, offering to sell her charms to philosophy.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“The adventures first . . . explanations take such a dreadful time.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the high Roman fashion, and make death proud to take us.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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