“When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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“Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”

― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified.”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“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

“What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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