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Sors de l'enfance, ami, réveille-toi!
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.



My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn, My Wicked, Wicked Ways. The Autobiography of Errol Flynn (1959).


The world is just a hell and in it human beings are the tortured souls on the one hand, and the devils on the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer,
Parerga and Paralipomena, Short Philosophical Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2 (Section 156), p. 300.
Translated (from the original 1851 German edition) by E.F.J. Payne. UK: Oxford University Press, 1974. ISBN 0198245270.

I don't remember if I started drinking...because my wife left me or...my wife left me 'cause I started drinking.
— Ben (Nicolas Cage), Leaving Las Vegas (1995).


Rome is strangling my people and my country and the whole earth, but not forever. I tell you, the day Rome falls, there will be a shout of freedom such as the world has never heard before.
— Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston),
Ben-Hur (1959 film).