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#1

“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе

tags: limits-of-power, nothing-left-to-lose, tyranny

520 likes

#2

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135805 likes

#3

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

6600 likes

#4

“In times of war, the law falls silent.

Silent enim leges inter arma”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war

798 likes

#5

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: candor, honesty, truth-telling

713 likes

#6

“Dum Spiro, spero”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

376 likes

#7

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

4433 likes

#8

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7229 likes

#9

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

11039 likes

#10

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18878 likes

#11

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: inspirational, motto

2904 likes

#12

“It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

1414 likes

#13

“There's always another secret.' -Kelsier”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

tags: kelsier, mistborn, secret

1009 likes

#14

“As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

408 likes

#15

“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."
"But the Almighty determines what is right!"
"Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: altruism, belief, ethics, heart, humanism, morality, punishment, religion, retribution, right, wrong

645 likes

#16

“The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
― Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set

tags: women

643 likes

#17

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

16866 likes

#18

“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

700 likes

#19

“Time to toss the dice”
― robert jordan

tags: inspirational

208 likes

#20

“And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”
― William Wordsworth

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