Nyxks Musings

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
–Oliver Goldsmith

You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
–Marquis De Vauvenargues

So let us regard this as settled: what is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
–Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

If freedom could be had for the wishing, everyone would be free, but an unfaltering attachment to freedom, rising above all difficulties and based on facts, not appearances, is rarely found in men, and that is why those who do possess that attachment are considered virtually superhuman.
–Carlos Buonapartos (Father of Napoleon)

I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you told me it was. It is the divinest thing in us.
–Oscar Wilde, from The Picture of Dorian