“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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“It is again a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but remembering and recalling them.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“I sit down beside her and she talks—a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“the man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“I really felt ashamed to take advantage of the ingenuousness or grateful feeling of the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”

― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

“Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of Time.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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