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

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Plato
“χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά

Nothing beautiful without struggle.”
Plato, The Republic

Jordan B. Peterson
“I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
Jordan B. Peterson

Augustine of Hippo
“The measure of love is to love without measure.”
Augustine of Hippo

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