“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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“She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“all knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“But Natural Selection, we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is as immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

“to accuse, requires less eloquence (such is man's nature) than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution more resembles justice.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“the danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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