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“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne““Outside of these, he should listen to no one, pursue the thing resolved on, and be steadfast in his resolutions. He who does otherwise is either overthrown by flatterers, or is so often changed by varying opinions that he falls into contempt.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli“ "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“There's many a true word spoken in jest.”
Ulysses • James Joyce“There is a virtue, Simmias, which is named courage. Is not that a special attribute of the philosopher? ...Again, there is temperance. Is not the calm, and control, and disdain of the passions which even the many call temperance, a quality belonging only to those who despise the body and live in philosophy?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato