“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Nature that made thee, with herself at strife, Saith that the world hath ending with thy life.”

― William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

“Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“The death-penalty inflicted upon criminals may be looked on in much the same light: it is in order that we may not fall victims to an assassin that we consent to die if we ourselves turn assassins.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

― Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement address

“The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I had really only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and self-discipline.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward”

― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

“whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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