“It is because I was foolish then that I am wise to-day.”

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“In revolutions the occasions may be trifling, but great interests are at stake.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine for food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value—to press my lips to what I love—to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice? If so, then certainly I...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

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