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“The surest way for those who want to rule is praising moderation, talking of peace and quiet.”
Oedipus • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?”
Day's Collacon • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Russia! Russia! I see you now, from my wondrous, beautiful past I behold you! How wretched, dispersed, and uncomfortable everything is about you...”
Dead Souls • Nikolai Gogol“This one is particularly beautiful and profound, straight from the heart. When I first read it, I loved the fact that he needs solitude and time to think about Milena, but then when I read it the second time, something else struck me: when he says his office job is boring, his flat is stupid, but he feels he must not complain about his everyday reality because Milena is part of it too, and the gratefulness he feels for that: this moment which belongs to you:”
Letters To Milena • Franz Kafka“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
A Scandal in Bohemia • Arthur Conan Doyle