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  • #1
    Seneca
    “What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #2
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #3
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #4
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #5
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #6
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #7
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #8
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #11
    Aristotle
    “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
    Aristotle, Metaphysics

  • #12
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    Socrates

  • #13
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #14
    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #15
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • #16
    Maya Angelou
    “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #17
    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    Voltaire

  • #18
    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #19
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never, never, never give in!”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #20
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #21
    Thomas  Harris
    “The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”
    Thomas Harris, Hannibal

  • #22
    Thomas  Harris
    “I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”
    Thomas Harris, Hannibal

  • #23
    Thomas  Harris
    “The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.”
    Thomas Harris, Hannibal

  • #24
    Thomas  Harris
    “There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named—the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.”
    Thomas Harris, Hannibal

  • #25
    Thomas  Harris
    “The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.”
    Thomas Harris, Hannibal

  • #26
    Thomas  Harris
    “The world will not be this way within the reach of my arm.”
    Thomas Harris, Hannibal

  • #27
    Thomas  Harris
    “How do you behave when you know the conventional honors are dross? When you have come to believe with Marcus Aurelius that the opinion of future generations will be worth no more than the opinion of the current one? Is it possible to behave well then? Desirable to behave well then?”
    Thomas Harris, Hannibal

  • #28
    Thomas  Harris
    “We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum. Pazzi”
    Thomas Harris, Hannibal

  • #29
    Thomas  Harris
    “Death and danger do not have to come with trappings.”
    Thomas Harris, Hannibal

  • #30
    Thomas  Harris
    “it would hold among its molecules the vibrations of all the conversations ever held in its presence. All the exchanges, the petty irritations, the deadly revelations, the flat announcements of disaster, the grunts and poetry of love. Sit”
    Thomas Harris, Hannibal



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