“Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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“We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“To be successful, however, you must be brutal with yourself and focus on the flaws.”

― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these members, I am not a wind, a fire, a vapour, a breath, nor anything at all which I can imagine or conceive; because I have assumed that...”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

“I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a...”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“The death-penalty inflicted upon criminals may be looked on in much the same light: it is in order that we may not fall victims to an assassin that we consent to die if we ourselves turn assassins.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“There is a way out of a forest, there is none out of a cloister; a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if...”

― Denis Diderot, The Nun

“I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.”

― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

“To fear the worst oft cures the worse.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

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