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“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
The Children of Hurin • J.R.R Tolkien“When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.”
Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
The Boscombe Valley Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle““Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.””
Republic • Plato“A fool having enjoyed good fortune like intoxication to a great amount becomes more foolish.”
Fragment • Epictetus