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“Oh, miserable ephemeral race, children of chance and suffering, why do you compel me to say to you what would be most beneficial for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly unreachable: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is – to die soon.”
― Silenus

“The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it”
― Aristotle

“Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.”
― Martin Farquhar Tupper

“The difficulty of seeing how values could be objective is a fairly strong reason for thinking that they are not so”
― John Leslie Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong