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“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““Instead of inspiring the gallant attentions which other women seek, she made men dream,””
The Lily Of The Valley • Honore de Balzac“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny. They have only shifted it to another shoulder.”
Man and Superman • George Bernard Shaw“There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought — a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.”
The Mysterious Stranger • Mark Twain“The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss put it, ancient writing’s main function was to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)