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

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic ; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“To me, a great ineptitude exists on the part of those who would have it that God made the universe more in proportion to the small capacity of their reason than to His immense, His infinite, power.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

“Liberty is the nominal goal of Rousseau's thought, but in fact it is equality that he values, and that he seeks to secure even at the expense of liberty.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

“Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace to silence envious tongues.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

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