"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."

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“Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”

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“A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.”

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"What fixes and preserves a nation’s language, as well as its sciences and its history, is simply the strength of its political power, accompanied by the happy welfare and leisure of its inhabitants."

— Imam Ibn Hazm (R.A.)

Philosophy994–1064

#power

"Religion is indeed essential to or innate in man, but … this is not the religion of theology or theism, not an actual belief in God, but solely the religion that expresses nothing other than man’s fee…"

— Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Philosophy1804–1872

#philosophy

"Whether or not your actions are determined, you have to act on the assumption that you have free will. If you are determined, your attempt at free will loses you nothing. However, if you are not deter…"

— Alexei Panshin

Science1940–2022

#freedom

"Misery is a vacuum. A space without air, a suffocated dead place, the abode of the miserable. Misery is a tenement block, rooms like battery cages, sit over your own droppings, lie on your own filth. …"

— Jeanette Winterson

Literature1959

#life