“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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“is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all-sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty!”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything . . . and when they grow older they know it.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Thinking is the hardest work any one can do—which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings—a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“That'll be a comfort, one way—never to be an old woman—but then—always to have lessons to learn!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

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