You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your...
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Wilhelm Reich
If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.
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Steve Maraboli
Your opinion is not my reality.
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Steve Maraboli
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Voltaire
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny,...
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John Stuart Mill
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If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by
His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; "I shall tell my mother of you! " he sobs and crashes out of the chamber
News of the death of James V on 14 December gave even further cause for rejoicing, because his heir was a week-old girl, the infant Mary, Queen of Scots. Scotland would be subject to yet another weakening regency–it had endured six during the past 150...
In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came to the practicalities of life, a ruthless pragmatism often came into play. Kings and noblemen married for political advantage, and women rarely had...
Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and the arbiter of good taste and modesty.
