“Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Alone —free — the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Passports are only good for annoying honest folks, and aiding in the flight of rogues.”

― Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

“The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Do not be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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