“We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Most of us spend a good part of our lives in clearing our minds of the notions that sprang up unchecked during our nonage. This is called 'getting our experience.'”

― Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

“The more parts of yourself you can afford to forget the more charm you have.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“And there never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains: their most universal quality is diversity.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

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