"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue..." - Quote by George Orwell

“...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.”

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”

“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.”

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.”

“There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.”

“If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.”

“The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.”

“The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.”