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Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur.

“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth ― only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”

― C.S. Lewis

“In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.”

― G.K. Chesterton

“All people suffer, but […] not all people pity themselves.”

― Marcus Aurelius

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

― Chinese proverb

"Men's hatred for the one who has been unjust to them is trifling compared to their hatred for the one they have treated unjustly; every reminder of him brings a fresh twinge of pain."

― Paul Mankowski

"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Let your credo be this. Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn