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To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

 - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

 - Michel de Montaigne