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Marco Aurélio
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
I, who have never willfully pained another, have n
Marco Aurélio
Oscar Wilde
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Self-denial is simply a method by which man arrest
Oscar Wilde
William Congreve
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
To refuse the sweets of life because they once mus
William Congreve
Blaise Pascal
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; w
Blaise Pascal
H. L. Mencken
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she
H. L. Mencken
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Never can true courage dwell with them, / Who, pla
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Joyce Carol Oates
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to
Joyce Carol Oates
Samuel Johnson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise. It
Samuel Johnson