“An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them in the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“when they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Nature confutes the sceptics, and reason confutes the dogmatists.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they’re infested with idealism of all kinds.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“there's no such thing as a lousy job—only lousy men who don't care to do it.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful—at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“a prince should guard himself, above all things, against being despised and hated; and liberality leads you to both.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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