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“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime • Oscar Wilde““You can satisfy the people, for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles, the latter wishing to oppress, while the former only desire not to be oppressed.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli“Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”
A Tale of Two Cities • Charles Dickens