It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. Following the Equator
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain. The Karamazov Brothers
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism. The Karamazov Brothers
“Fortune . . . shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her.” The Prince
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