I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose. Don Quixote
Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences. Don Quixote
“I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.” Seagull
In historical events great men—so-called—are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity. War and Peace
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