To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is perfection of character. Book VII
The formula 'two plus two equals five' is not without its attractions. Notes from Underground
"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue." The Analects of Confucius
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering; and ... consequently, this feeling should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men. Essays and Letters
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