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“..If you are troubled by external circumstances, it is not the circumstances that trouble you, but your own perception of them - and they are in your power to change at any time.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce“My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.”
The importance of Being Earnest • Oscar Wilde“If there were a distinguished person whose life, by birth and conditions, belonged especially to the same earthly dissimilarity, a distinguished person who would not assent to this divisive conspiracy against the universally human, that is, against the neighbor, if he did not have the heart to do this, if, clearly perceiving the consequences, he still trusted in God for the strength to bear these consequences while he lacked the strength to harden his heart ... the distinguished corruption would accuse him of being a traitor and self-lover—because he wanted to love the neighbor.”
Works of Love • Soren Kierkegaard“Bazarov, who had a special capacity for winning the confidence of lower-class people, though he never cringed to them and indeed treated them casually; ”
Fathers and Sons • Ivan Turgenev