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“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”

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Jean de la Bruyere was a French philosopher and moralist, born on August 16, 1645, and died on May 10, 1696. His works have had a profound impact on posterity. more

“All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.”

Ifs Knows Men Writing May Made Eye Moving Law Dies Stars Justice Blood Mines Creatures Stones Wine Shining Bones Revenge Flesh Teeth Meat Torture Abstract Crush Sooner Or Later Limbs

Book:The Year Of The Flood

Source: The Year Of The Flood

“Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo”

Burden Heavy Heavy Burdens

Book:CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet

Source: CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”

Happiness Delight Tricks Being Happy Expect Nothing

Author:Charles Dickens

“Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.”

Ifs Blessing Shots Lips Darling Hush Hush Hush

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.”

Ifs Littles Running Dirt Poke Mephistopheles

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.”

Heart Left My Heart Mouths Breaths Flesh Pounds Frightened

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.”

Men Wells Speak Judgment Tongue Wit Sad Things

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.”

Source: 1984

“If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.”

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