“The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”

― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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“To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“The love of battle is the food upon which we live—the dust of the 'melee' is the breath of our nostrils! We live not—we wish not to live—longer than while we are victorious and renowned—Such, maiden, are the laws of chivalry to which we...”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“Love needs no protection; it is its own protection. So long as love begets life no child is deserted, or hungry, or famished for the want of affection. I know this to be true.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a...”

― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

“A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. As things stand, admiration and respect are given to the man who seems to be rich. This is the chief reason why people wish to be rich. The actual goods...”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“a man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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