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Both the good and the pleasant present themselves to a man. The calm soul examines them well and discriminates. Yes, he prefers the good to the pleasant; but the fool chooses the pleasant out of greed and avarice.
- Upanishads
A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe. “The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.”
- Stephen Crane
Be determined. The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree.
- Gautama Buddha
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have no laws at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
- Michel De Montaigne
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
- Jean Cocteau
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
- Ernest Hemingway
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