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“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
An Ideal Husband • Oscar Wilde“Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson • Mark Twain“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare“Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature -- is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.”
Discourses • Epictetus