Igor Aguiar

“The most accurate criterion by which to judge if a man has good sense is to see whether he resists his heart’s immediate impulses towards pleasure and has proved capable of self-control and self-mastery. But the man who tends to gratify his heart’s impulses is the man who tends towards the worse, not the better, course of action.”
― Robin Waterfield, The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
― Confucius

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde