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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Homer
“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
Homer, The Iliad

Edmund Burke
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

Friedrich Nietzsche
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

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