"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains." -Rousseau
"Men are deceived if they think themselves free." -Spinoza
"Motives are causes experienced from within." -Hume
"Man is caught in continuous cycles." -Kafka
"We are what repeatedly do." -Aristotle
"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life." -Hume
"I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly
we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves." -Thoureau
"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things." -Thoureau
"My townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited... for these are more easily acquired than got rid of." -Thoureau
"We are possesions of our own possessions."
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