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

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the misers of learning.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war, and to end it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Believe me, to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“This notwithstanding, I will not undertake war, until I have first tried all the ways and means of peace: that I resolve upon.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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