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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without...men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
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“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
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“Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.”
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“The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.”
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Darius’s 2025 Year in Books
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