“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“Now most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.”

― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less travelled by,And that has made all the difference.”

― Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

“Economically, men and women almost form two castes; all things being equal, the former have better jobs, higher wages, and greater chances to succeed than their new female competitors; they occupy many more places in industry, in politics, and so...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”

― Stephen King, The Shining

“And this same knowledge extends likewise to all other things which I recollect having formerly demonstrated, such as the truths of geometry and the like; for what can be alleged against them to cause me to place them in doubt?”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

“The life of every individual, if we survey it as a whole and in general, and only lay stress upon its most significant features, is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments, produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that...”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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