士不可不弘毅，任重而道远。

— 曾子

If you want to know who rules over you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

— George Orwell

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players;

— Shakespeare

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

— Søren Kierkegaard

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God’s mind?

— Freeman Dyson (OW)

L’homme est né libre et partout il est dans les fers.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don’t care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don’t have any of their own.

— Nikola Tesla

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

— Alan Turing

难知如阴，动如雷震。

— 孫武

‘Sad wanderer, weep those blissful times
That never may return!’
The lovely floweret seemed to say,
And thus it made me mourn.

— Anne Brontë

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Unfortunately, the architect of your soul appears to be social media.

— Unknown

If music be the food of love, play on.

— Shakespeare

Was suchst du hier im Heiligtum? –
Der Lieb’ und Tugend Eigentum.

— Mozart, from Die Zauberflöte