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“I am tormented by temptations." "What kind? There is a cure for temptation." "What?" "Yielding to it.“”
Le Pere Goriot • Honore de Balzac““It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order.””
12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos • Jordan B. Peterson““Look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision,—what will be his reply?””
Republic • Plato“Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.”
Moby Dick • Herman Melville““A young person cannot judge what is allegorical and what is literal; anything that he receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts.””
Republic • Plato