“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel
― I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel
“Once we begin to regard the well-being of others as integral to our own, we overcome the paralysis of competing rights, which rationalizes innocent suffering.”
― An Ethical Compass: Coming of Age in the 21st Century
― An Ethical Compass: Coming of Age in the 21st Century
“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”
― A Hero of Our Time
― A Hero of Our Time
“Respice finem; that is to say, in all your actions, look often upon what you would have, as the thing that directs all your thoughts in the way to attain it.”
― Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition
― Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition
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