“Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.”

― Confucius, Analects

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector.”

― Plato, The Republic

“Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything’s changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and suddenly you’re going to live another few hours.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Wonderfully, soon afterwards, insight came towards me in the form of the great Buddha's teachings, I felt the knowledge of the oneness of the world circling in me like my own blood.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“All art is quite useless.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Was there anything so real as words?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.”

― Charles Dickens,

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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