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#1

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: compromise, love, manipulation, marriage, marriage-advice, narcissism, narcissists, passive-aggressive, passive-aggressiveness, real-love, relationships, sacrifice, true-love

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#2

“Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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#3

“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: information

63 likes

#4

“The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: death, evangelism, fear, modern, modern-life, modern-values, modernity, modernity-is-sickness, narcissism, religion, values

53 likes

#5

“Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: employment, slavery

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#6

“A mathematician starts with a problem and creates a solution; a consultant starts by offering a “solution” and creates a problem.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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#7

“Contra the prevailing belief, "success" isn't being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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#8

“The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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#9

“Some people are only funny when they try to be serious.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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#10

“Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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#11

“Pure generosity is when you help the ingrate. Every other form is self-serving.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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