“The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Nevertheless, so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration...”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient.”

― Plato, The Republic

“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick

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