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“"So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn money in quite different ways."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“ "Gregor's appeals to his father were of no help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“No one has had gods so favourable to him that he can promise himself a morrow.”
Thyestes • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism • Oscar Wilde