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The horse watched him from its stall, occasionally trying to eat his hair in a friendly sort of way.
A Caligula, or a Yuri Vorbarra, can rule a long time, while the best men hesitate to do what is necessary to stop him, and the worst ones take advantage.
Shards of Honor
Lois McMaster Bujold
Think of this: The reason why the child is able to preserve its innocence and live like the rest of creation in the bliss of the kingdom is that it has not been sucked into what we call “the world”—that region of darkness inhabited by grownups whose lives are spent not in living but in courting applause and admiration, not in blissfully being themselves but in neurotically comparing, competing, and striving for those empty things called success and fame—even if they can be attained only at the expense of defeating, humiliating, or destroying their neighbors.
Stop Fixing Yourself
Anthony de Mello
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