“Under the guidance of reason we should pursue the greater of two goods and the lesser of two evils.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Pride, therefore, is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“The only immediate utility of all sciences, is to teach us, how to control and regulate future events by their causes.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Even in his youth Florentino Ariza climbed up and down stairs with special care, for he had always believed that old age began with one's first minor fall and that death came with the second.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Are you sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But how about up and down? Gravitation limits us there.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress... a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.”

― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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