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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Being is the great explainer.

Nothing can come of nothing.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.