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Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
