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  • #1
    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    Voltaire

  • #2
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #3
    Stephen M.R. Covey
    “We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”
    Stephen M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

  • #4
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #5
    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #6
    Epictetus
    “Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
    Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

  • #7
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #8
    Sun Tzu
    “Deep knowledge is to be aware of disturbance before disturbance, to be aware of danger before danger, to be aware of destruction before destruction, to be aware of calamity before calamity. Strong action is training the body without being burdened by the body, exercising the mind without being used by the mind, working in the world without being affected by the world, carrying out tasks without being obstructed by tasks.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War: Complete Texts and Commentaries

  • #9
    Tom Clancy
    “The noblest of ideas have always been protected by warriors.”
    Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears

  • #10
    Tom Clancy
    “A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization.”
    Tom Clancy, Patriot Games

  • #11
    Tom Clancy
    “A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.”
    Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor

  • #12
    Tom Clancy
    “The dead were gone and didn't know or care what they left behind.. If the dead still lived on the surface of this earth then it was in the minds of those who remembered them...”
    Tom Clancy, Without Remorse

  • #13
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #15
    Confucius
    “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
    Confucius

  • #16
    Steve Rasnic Tem
    “Some people, I believe, are paid for dreaming. But most, I think, are punished.”
    Steve Rasnic Tem, Onion Songs

  • #17
    “The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
    John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

  • #18
    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #19
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #20
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Reading brings us unknown friends”
    Honore de Balzac



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