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All our wisdom consists of servile prejudices. All our practices are only subjection, impediment, and constraint. Civil man is born, lives, and dies in slavery. At his birth he is sewed in swaddling cloths; at his death he is nailed in a coffin. So long as he keeps his human shape, he is enchained by our institutions.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1768

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
--Robert A. Heinlein

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Jane Austen

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I kow that I know nothing, but because I know that I know nothing, I know more than the rest.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false; a gift confers no rights. -- Friedrich Nietzche

Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda



Darlie

"Life is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." --Horace Walpole

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

(Bertrand Russell; The conquest of happiness)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a Heaven for?
--Robert Browning

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde