“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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“The earth is a great piece of stupidity.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“do you find it more poetic when you don't quite know what it means? I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“But love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger, so she asked her question.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“The only social peril is darkness. Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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