Michael Tranchina

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca