“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“He was always in a hurry to speak, and seemed always to put his whole soul into what he was saying.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition; and where all the superior ranks of people were secured from it, the inferior ranks could not be much exposed to it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Anxiously he explored every one of these vaguely seen shapes, as though among the phantoms of the dead, in the realms of darkness, he had been searching for a lost Eurydice.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.”

― William Shakespeare, Pericles

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