"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." The Analects of Confucius
“The heat was beginning to scorch my cheeks; beads of sweat were gathering in my eyebrows. It was just the same sort of heat as at my mother’s funeral, and I had the same disagreeable sensations—especially in my forehead, where all the veins seemed to be bursting through the skin.” Stranger
"Gazing into the darkness, he felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in such a nice home for his sister and parents." Metamorphosis and Other Stories
In historical events great men—so-called—are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity. War and Peace
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