Fyodor Dostoevsky
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
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Josh Billings
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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Francis Bacon
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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Elbert Hubbard
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Virgil
Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
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