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  • #1
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #2
    Thomas Hobbes
    Scientia potentia est.

    Knowledge is power.”
    Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

  • #3
    Thomas Hobbes
    “For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance.”
    Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

  • #4
    Thomas Hobbes
    “The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”
    Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

  • #5
    Thomas Hobbes
    “For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.”
    Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

  • #6
    Thomas Hobbes
    “For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.”
    Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

  • #7
    Thomas Hobbes
    “So that in the nature of man,
    we find three principal causes of quarrel:

    First, Competition;
    Secondly, Dissidence;
    Thirdly, Glory.

    The first, maketh men invade for Gain;
    the second, for Safety;
    and the third, for Reputation.

    The first use Violence, to make themselves Masters of other men's persons, wives, children and cattle;
    the second, to defend them;
    the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their Persons, or by reflexion in their Kindred, their Friends, their Nation, their Profession, or their Name.”
    Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #9
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #12
    Cassandra Clare
    “Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead."
    "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #17
    Cassandra Clare
    “Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #18
    Holly Black
    “Every hero is the villain of his own story.”
    Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

  • #19
    Holly Black
    “Death’s favorites don’t die.”
    Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

  • #20
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune



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