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“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill““For he alone, and no other initiate, knew how easy it was to starve. It was the easiest thing in the world. He did not keep this fact a secret, but no one believed him.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka“The exchange of one fear or pleasure or pain for another fear or pleasure or pain, which are measured like coins, the greater with the less, is not the exchange of virtue. O, my dear Simmias, is there not one true coin, for which all things ought to exchange?—and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage or temperance or justice. ...in the true exchange, there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself are a purgation of them.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius