Peter Singer

“We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

“Towards the end of the eighteenth century, Englishmen began building houses on the east coast of this warm land of curious life and unknown vastness. They had selected, more by luck than exploration, the banks of a magnificent harbour, a place which posterity generally recognized as one of the best sites in the world.”
― John Hirst, The Australians: Insiders and Outsiders on the National Character since 1770

“Epicurus observed that: Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one’s entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

“Why is it, Caesar, that there’s always a man like Lucius Metellus?” “If there were not, Antonius, this world might work better. Though if this world worked better, there’d be no place in it for men like me,” said Caesar.”
― Colleen McCullough, Caesar