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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and read more
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive read more
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by read more
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: read more
Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The read more
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
