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  • #1
    Ernest Hemingway
    “If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #3
    Graham Greene
    “The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
    Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

  • #4
    Graham Greene
    “Hate is a lack of imagination.”
    Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

  • #5
    Graham Greene
    “I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”
    Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

  • #6
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #7
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #8
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Non nobis solum nati sumus.

    (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #10
    Isabel Allende
    “We only have what we give.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #11
    Horace Mann
    “Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
    Horace Mann

  • #12
    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #13
    Seneca
    “All cruelty springs from weakness.”
    Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

  • #14
    Seneca
    “I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
    seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi

  • #15
    Seneca
    “Timendi causa est nescire -
    Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Natural Questions



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