“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”

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“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

— George Orwell

“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”<...

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

— Henry Miller

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway