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“Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.”
Fragment • Epictetus“The birth of all things is weak and tender; and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne““For the highest reach of injustice is, to be deemed just when you are not.””
Republic • Plato“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Aristotle at Afternoon Tea • Oscar Wilde“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche