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“My purpose was simply to diminish that mass of contradictions and abuses which eventually turn legal procedure into a wilderness where decent people hardly dare venture, and where bandits abound.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations upon a void; I wondered if that increasing vacuity was due to the lowering of intelligence or to moral decline; whatever the cause, mediocrity of mind was matched almost everywhere by shocking selfishness and dishonesty.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell