“But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked on to the stage he was fully born.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool, and draw shame and misery upon a man's self?”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“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

“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“There never has been a nation without a religion, that is, without an idea of good and evil.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“a leader . . . is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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