“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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“A coin is as dangerous as a sword in the wrong hands.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder aloud how the snowplow driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the...”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“the true votaries of philosophy abstain from all fleshly lusts, and hold out against them and refuse to give themselves up to them”

― Plato, Phaedo

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will...”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Sure enough, of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path for every man; a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do”

― Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

“But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Faith is believing what you know ain't so.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“the merit in all things consists in the difficulty.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

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