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“Absolute greatness will never be great and also small, but that greatness in us or in the concrete will never admit the small or admit of even being exceeded; instead of this, one of two things will happen—either the greater will fly and retire before the opposite, which is the less, or the advance of the less will cease to exist; but will not, if allowing or admitting smallness, be changed by that...nor can any other opposite which remains the same ever be or become its own opposite, but either passes away or perishes in the change.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“ "Luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.””
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind • Yuval Noah Harari“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde“By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.”
Letter to Polish Journalist • Leo Tolstoy““Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight / The Stars before him from the Field of Night, / Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes / The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.””
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam