“Must it ever be thus,—that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“His silence is more eloquent than words.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“And Credulity, because men love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a...”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving; it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative...”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“You’ve a good heart . . . Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go . . . But mostly, it’s not.”

― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”

― Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux

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