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“There is a virtue, Simmias, which is named courage. Is not that a special attribute of the philosopher? ...Again, there is temperance. Is not the calm, and control, and disdain of the passions which even the many call temperance, a quality belonging only to those who despise the body and live in philosophy?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato““Not to extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli“Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”
Dubliners • James Joyce“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Les Misérables • VICTOR HUGO