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““Look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision,—what will be his reply?””
Republic • Plato“In the end one needs forbearance to get by in this world.”
The Post Office Girl • Stefan Zweig“A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.”
De Brevitate Vitae • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”
The Critic as Artist • Oscar Wilde“If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.”
Book VI • Marcus Aurelius