“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labours in vain, and how shall we do that for others which we are seldom able to do for ourselves?”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“Swann had learned by experience that the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men...”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“For untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“When I speak of home, I speak of the place where—in default of a better—those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.”

― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“The great soul of the legislator is the only miracle that can prove his mission.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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