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Him I would call the powerful one who controls the storms of his mind.

— Walter Savage Landor

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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

There is nothing so difficult to support imperturbably as the head of a lovely girl, except her grief.

Absence and death are the same—only that in death there is no suffering.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.

Imaginary Conversations (1824)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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