“Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt, since riches point to misery and contempt?”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

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“Again, just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as...”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might...”

― George Orwell, 1984

“The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone’s.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men...”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

― Carl Jung, Memories

“Meanwhile the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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