“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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“If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”

― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“freedom, not power, is the greatest good. That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“You say: I am not free. But I have lifted my hand and let it fall. Everyone understands that this illogical reply is an irrefutable demonstration of freedom.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“no, sir. You can go to hell, sir. It's the best I can do for you, sir.”

― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

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