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Darius’s Quotes

“Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.”
― Samuel Johnson

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“If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

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“Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.”
― Primo Levi

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“The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

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“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without...men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: adulthood, maturity, self-control

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