“I am afraid our eyes are bigger than our bellies, and that we have more curiosity than capacity; for we grasp at all, but catch nothing but wind.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“There’s more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“All that up to the present time I have accepted as most true and certain I have learned either from the senses or through the senses; but it is sometimes proved to me that these senses are deceptive, and it is wiser not to trust entirely to...”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

“The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of imagination.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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