“Either things are, and appear so to be; or else they are not, and do not appear to be; or else they are, and do not appear to be; or else they are not, and yet appear to be.”

― Epictetus, Discourses

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“empty heads console with empty sound.”

― Alexander Pope, The Dunciad

“For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew desire with thee still longer to converse induced me.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”

― Plato, The Republic

“But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation, and that they are much more uniform, than can be easily imagined.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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