backing up my quote file (wish i'd started making one of those much earlier in my life...):

quotes

thus, too, they came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.- the plague

hitoshi had an extremely eccentric younger brother. his way of thinking, his responses to events, were "curiouser and curiouser". he lived exactly as if his awareness of things had been formed in some other dimension, after which he was plopped down on this planet to fend for himself.- moonlight shadow

i must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes. -moonlight shadow

I was building up in me a dream which the entire educational system of the South had been rigged to stifle. - black boy

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others.- the fall

Above all, don't believe your friends when they ask you to be sincere with them. They merely hope you will encourage them in the good opinion they have of themselves by providing them with the additional assurance they will find in your promise of sincerity.- the fall

Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace. - the quiet american

Then I must be a greater than Daedalus; for whereas he only made his own inventions move, I move those of other people as well.- euthyphro

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nurture and education. - crito

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. -the odyssey

Yet it would perhaps be thought to be better, indeed to be our duty, for the sake of maintaining the truth even to destroy what touches us closely, especially as we are philosophers or lovers of wisdom; for, while both are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.- nicomachean ethics

Hence, it is no easy task to be good.-nicomachean ethics

All postures of submission and surrender should be part of our prehistory. -christopher hitchens

a woman's biology would not be her destiny.-before roe v.wade