“It is hard to fight against impulsive desire. Whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of the soul.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

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“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st - A...”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Now, all the general propositions favouring freedom I had either imbibed at my father’s knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek were suddenly embodied in the worshippers and their children and illuminated by their smiles.”

― Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Religions are often the state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“Among unequals what society can sort, what harmony, or true delight?”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“For every one, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”

― Plato, The Republic

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