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I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters. ↗

— Rick Riordan

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Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you. All men make mistakes, it is only human. But once the wrong is done, a man can turn his back on folly, misfortune too, if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen, and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornness brands you for stupidity - pride is a crime. ↗

— Sophocles

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I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught… ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

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Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth! ↗

— Sorin Cerin

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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else? ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

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Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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Be more weary of the fearful than of the brave. ↗

— Meeta Ahluwalia

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When two wise men are blaming one another, then time has come for you to be the third one. ↗

— Toba Beta

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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. ↗

— Epictetus

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You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want... ↗

— Julia Heywood

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