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“Above all else, I want you to think for yourself, to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true and 3) what to do about it”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Summary

“Pain + Reflection = Progress”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Summary

“It's tough to be tough on people.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Summary

“You don’t achieve happiness by getting rid of your problems – you achieve it by learning from them.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Summary

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine”
― St.Thomas Aquinas

“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Wonder is the desire of knowledge.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.”
― Saint Thomas Aquinas

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“The bodies of irrational animals are bent toward the ground, whereas man was made to walk erect with his eyes on heaven, as though to remind him to keep his thoughts on things above.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God