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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ~Benjamin Franklin



Liberty is the breath of life to nations. ~George Bernard Shaw



He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. ~Baltasar Gracian



Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet



It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. ~Arthur Christopher Benson



To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance. ~A. Bronson Alcott



It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously. ~Jean Cocteau



You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. ~Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden, "The Mission," Chapter 8



There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. ~Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve



For the rubble of history, which is undigested and therefore goes on blindly, does not lie so thickly on the ground as in our own consciousness. ~Herbert Luthy



Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859



Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ~Bertrand Russell Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. ~Holbrook Jackson



Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink. ~Author Unknown



If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. ~Confucius



If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat? ~Author Unknown



Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. ~Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise," And Still I Rise



Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ~Henry van Dyke



Hatred is one long wait. ~Rene Maran



Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ~James Bryant Conant



In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson