"This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way”
“Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.”

Source : MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.12, Read Books Ltd
“You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.”

Source : "Livingstone Fails to Get Disrepute Charge Dropped". www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2005.
“All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.”
“Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.”

Source : Florinda Donner (1991). “Being-in-dreaming”, Harpercollins
“B*tches come and go but friends are for real.”
“I've never owned a really bad car, but when I did my driving lessons I had something pretty bad. It was a Skoda, from back before Skodas were actually good, because I know they've got better recently but this was a proper old one. Roy's School of Motoring, it was called, and it was this cream Skoda with a long bonnet. He did 20 lessons for a really cheap fee because nobody wanted to be seen in this cream Skoda around Enfield!”
“To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.”

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