“Hence it is evident that the good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe he’s disappointed that...”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonised as in that hour left my lips; for...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are all embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young…”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“She's the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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