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“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery. If there’s the hundredth part of a false note in speaking the truth, it leads to a discord, and that leads to trouble. But if all, to the last note, is false in flattery, it is just as agreeable, and is heard not without satisfaction. It may be a coarse satisfaction, but still a satisfaction. And however coarse the flattery, at least half will be sure to seem true. That’s so for all stages of development and classes of society.”
Crime And Punishment • Fyodor Dostoevski“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”
The Immoralist • Andre Gide“If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.'”
David Copperfield • Charles Dickens“Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)