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“The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
Return to the Simple Life • Carl Gustav Jung“Trifles make the sum of life.”
David Copperfield • Charles Dickens“My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.”
Great Expectations • Charles Dickens“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.”
The Winter of Our Discontent • John Steinbeck“And are not the temperate exactly in the same case? They are temperate because they are intemperate—which may seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they must have, and are afraid of losing; and therefore they abstain from one class of pleasures because they are overcome by another: and whereas intemperance is defined as "being under the domination of pleasure," they overcome only because they are overcome by pleasure.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato