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“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be—and are ruined.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
,
The Prince
“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin.”
Mary Shelley
,
Frankenstein
“I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.”
Oscar Wilde
,
De Profundis
“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.”
Sophocles
,
Antigone
“We were ruinous together . . . But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?”
Margaret Atwood
,
The Blind Assassin
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