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- The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
- Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
- The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth
- An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Gorky Incident
- I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), Diary, 17 February 1922
- Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
- Orson Scott Card (1951 - ), Ender's Game
- During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
- Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), D-Day, page 577
- Never invest you money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
- Billy Rose
- When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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