“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquillity of mind, while we live here; because Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“'What happens when people open their hearts?' . . . 'They get better'”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“And Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The first years of man must make provision for the last. He that never thinks, never can be wise.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“God's will! My liege, would you and I alone, without more help, could fight this royal battle!”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“I would not wish to be hasty in censuring anyone; but I always speak what I think.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Katie, why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we...”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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