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“Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist; but that is how it is. I am not trying to deny the wickedness of the wicked; what I do deny is that their existence is absolute and complete existence. Just as you might call a corpse a dead man, but couldn't simply call it a man, so I would agree that the wicked are wicked, but could not agree that they have unqualified existence.”
― The Consolation of Philosophy
― The Consolation of Philosophy
“One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.”
― The Prisoner of Heaven
― The Prisoner of Heaven
“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”
― The Consolation of Philosophy
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”
― The Consolation of Philosophy
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