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    Li Bai
    “We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
    ― Li Po
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    Ezra Pound
    “Literature is news that stays news.”
    ― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
    tags: books, literature, reading
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    Ezra Pound
    “And the days are not full enough
    And the nights are not full enough
    And life slips by like a field mouse
    Not shaking the grass”
    ― Ezra Pound
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    Ezra Pound
    “Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling, learning
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    Ezra Pound
    “A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
    ― Ezra Pound
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    Ezra Pound
    “If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: controversy, courage, criticism, intellectuals, opinion, taboos, thought, writing
    130 likes

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  • #7
    Ezra Pound
    “The temple is holy because it is not for sale.”
    ― Ezra Pound, The Cantos
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  • #8
    Dorothy Parker
    “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly
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  • #9
    Plutarch
    “I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
    ― Plutarch
    tags: friendship
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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  • #14
    Aeschylus
    “In war, the first casualty is truth.”
    ― Aeschylus, Agamemnon
    tags: greek-dramatist
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  • #15
    Petronius
    “Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality...”
    ― Petronius, The Satyricon
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    Petronius
    “Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.”
    ― Petronius, The Satyricon
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  • #17
    Suetonius
    “Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.”
    ― Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
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    Suetonius
    “He answered some governors who had written to recommend an increase in the burden of provincial taxation, with: ‘A good shepherd shears his flock; he does not flay them.”
    ― Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
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    Frank Norris
    “I never truckled, I never took off the hat to fashion and held it out for pennies.”
    ― Frank Norris, Complete Works of Frank Norris V7: Responsibilities of the Novelist
    tags: quote-not-in-mcteague, truckle, truth
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  • #20
    Livy
    “We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
    ― Titus Livius (Livy)
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  • #21
    Tacitus
    “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
    ― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
    tags: commonwealth, corruption, government, law
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  • #22
    Tacitus
    “Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”
    ― Tacitus
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  • #23
    Propertius
    “Never change when love has found its home.”
    ― Sextus Propertius
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  • #24
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: cicero, learning, roman, school, study
    497 likes

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  • #27
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “While there's life, there's hope.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: hope, life
    348 likes

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  • #28
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, fear-and-loathing, grief, inspirational, sorrow
    167 likes

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  • #29
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  • #30
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: education, moderation, teaching
    141 likes



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