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“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.”
Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens“The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.”
Le Pere Goriot • Honore de Balzac“You want to have proven to you that the soul is imperishable and immortal, and you think that the philosopher who is confident in death has but a vain and foolish confidence, if he thinks that he will fare better than one who has led another sort of life, in the world below, unless he can prove this; and you say that the strength and divinity of the soul, and of her existence prior to our becoming men, does not necessarily imply her immortality. ...For any man, who is not devoid of natural feeling, has reason to fear, if he has no knowledge or proof of the soul's immortality. That is what I suppose you to say, Cebes, which I designedly repeat, in order that nothing may escape us...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.”
Journals • Andre Gide“Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.”
Autumn Leaves • Andre Gide