“I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness, Ned. Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds make deeds ill done!”

― William Shakespeare, King John

“And for morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows, that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Our thought habits are those of the scientist, not those of the worshipper. We are more likely to explain than to adore.”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“We understand more than we know.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

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