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  • #1
    Plato
    “Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
    Plato

  • #2
    Plato
    “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
    Plato

  • #3
    Plato
    “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
    Plato

  • #4
    Plato
    “Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
    Plato

  • #5
    Plato
    “Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
    We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
    in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”
    Plato

  • #6
    Plato
    “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
    Plato

  • #7
    Plato
    “People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
    Plato

  • #8
    Plato
    “To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates”
    Plato

  • #9
    Plato
    “The first and best victory is to conquer self”
    Plato

  • #10
    Plato
    “Is there a perfect world?”
    Plato

  • #11
    Thomas Hardy
    “I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!”
    Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

  • #12
    John Stuart Mill
    “Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.”
    John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

  • #13
    Alan Bradley
    “Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie,
    Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?”
    Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

  • #14
    Alan Bradley
    “Still, one of my Rules of Life is this: When you want something, bite your tongue.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

  • #15
    Alan Bradley
    “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life”
    Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

  • #16
    Alan Bradley
    “As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

    No ... eight days a week.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #18
    William Shakespeare
    “This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #19
    William Shakespeare
    “Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”
    William Shakespeare, Richard III

  • #20
    William Shakespeare
    “Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #21
    William Shakespeare
    “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.”
    William Shakespeare, Macbeth

  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “No, no, I am but shadow of myself:
    You are deceived, my substance is not here;”
    William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1

  • #23
    William Shakespeare
    “Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.”
    William Shakespeare, Richard III

  • #24
    William Shakespeare
    “Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to me That yet we sleep, we dream”
    William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • #25
    William Shakespeare
    “Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.”
    Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “Banish'd from [those we love] Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”
    William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

  • #27
    William Shakespeare
    “God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
    Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #28
    William Shakespeare
    “Now I will believe that there are unicorns...”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #29
    William Shakespeare
    “The rest, is silence.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #30
    William Shakespeare
    “A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
    We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
    But were we burdened with light weight of pain,
    As much or more we should ourselves complain.”
    William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors



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