The avaricious are thrifty with time as well as money. Beware of Pity
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. Oliver Twist
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids. Gorgias
“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” 1984
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