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“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“Once we begin to regard the well-being of others as integral to our own, we overcome the paralysis of competing rights, which rationalizes innocent suffering.”
― Elie Wiesel, An Ethical Compass: Coming of Age in the 21st Century

“Respice finem; that is to say, in all your actions, look often upon what you would have, as the thing that directs all your thoughts in the way to attain it.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition