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“It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.”
Fragment • Epictetus“Absolute greatness will never be great and also small, but that greatness in us or in the concrete will never admit the small or admit of even being exceeded; instead of this, one of two things will happen—either the greater will fly and retire before the opposite, which is the less, or the advance of the less will cease to exist; but will not, if allowing or admitting smallness, be changed by that...nor can any other opposite which remains the same ever be or become its own opposite, but either passes away or perishes in the change.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“It has always seemed strange to me ... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success.”
Cannery Row • John Steinbeck“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
Lady Windermere's Fan • Oscar Wilde“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But ... it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde