“Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“to control the child one must often control oneself.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you are able to give.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“A philosopher is recognised by the fact that he shuns three brilliant and noisy things— fame, princes, and women: which is not to say that they do not come to him.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

“Since when . . . do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands—you are the single biggest influence in your life. Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“But though the ways led away from the self, their end nevertheless always led back to the self.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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