“Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“War is a contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech

“This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”

― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, makes the night morning and the noontide night.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“What I most loved after you, Mercedes, was myself, my dignity, and that strength which rendered me superior to other men; that strength was my life.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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