“The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre; let us leave this commission to men who are more obedient and more supple.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Patriotism, on the other hand, is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“My friends, some years ago, the Federal Government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

“Ah! by Jove! one’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

“Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Industrious races find it a great hardship to be idle: it was a master stroke of English instinct to hallow and begloom Sunday to such an extent that the Englishman unconsciously hankers for his week—and work-day again”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“This was the alpenglow, to me one of the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed and waiting like devout...”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

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