Talking nonsense is man’s only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I distrust a man who says “when.” If he’s got to be careful not to drink too much, it’s because he’s not to be trusted when he does.
—Kaspar Gutman
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All politicians are humble, and seldom let you forget it.
—Russell Baker
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
—Confucius
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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
—E. M. Forster
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Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
—Aldous Huxley
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
—John Milton
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
—Samuel Johnson
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Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
—C. S. Lewis
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It is my firm belief, and I say this as a dictum, that all these tools now at our disposal, these things part of this explosive evolution of means of communication, mean we are now heading for an era of solitude. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal—be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever—human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
—Werner Herzog
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A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers
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Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes’, otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.
—Ian Fleming
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Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
—Jean de La Bruyère
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The actions of human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason
—Wilkie Collins
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
—Isaac Asimov
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Sobriety is the strength of the soul, for it preserves its reason unclouded by passion.
—Pythagoras
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Men will not always die quietly.
—John Maynard Keynes
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Semper in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris, cogitandum. In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
—John Galt
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The intoxication with power is worse than drunkenness with liquor and such, for he who is drunk with power does not come to his senses before he falls.
—Mahābhārata
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
—Thomas Paine
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
—Truman Capote
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Why is it, every time something terrible happens, everyone tells you the worst thing that ever happened to them, as though that makes it easier?
—Erend
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Ein unnütz Leben ist ein früher Tod. A useless life is an early death.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe