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“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά

Nothing beautiful without struggle.”
― Plato, The Republic

“It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality