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Arthur Schopenhauer
“The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

Samuel Johnson
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
Samuel Johnson

Yukio Mishima
“Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.”
Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“You know the direct, legitimate fruit of consciousness is inertia, that is, conscious sitting-with-the-hands-folded. I have referred to this already. I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all “direct” persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you:”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

William Edward Hartpole Lecky
“That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.”
W.E.H. Lecky, The Map of Life, Conduct, and Character

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