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“Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.”

Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality • Jared Diamond

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”

The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde

“"There, Master Niketas," Baudolino said, "when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds," he said, "to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one."”

Baudolino • Umberto Eco

“ "Have no friends not equal to yourself."”

The Analects of Confucius • Confucius

“This is what happens when you hurry through a maze; the faster you go, the worse you are entangled.”

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium • Lucius Annaeus Seneca