“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light...”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love...”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent and moderate our persuasion.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“They don’t kill you unless you light them . . . And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Only those who can see such signs of life are able to find treasure.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but . . . life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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