“all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

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“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”

― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“each of us knows only his own unhappiness.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

“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

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

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is eating us away.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“that war is just which is necessary, and arms are hallowed when there is no other hope but in them.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“But where is the last year's snow? This was the greatest care that Villon the Parisian poet took.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

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