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Meditaciones

by Marcus Aurelius

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“I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.”
― Michael J Fox

tags: ambition, curiosity

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“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: age, wisdom

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“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

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“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: avarice, catholic-author, common-sense, curiosity, deadly-sins, faults, gadfly, gold, greed, greediness, greedy-people, human-nature, mammon, proverbs, riches, sad-but-true, wisdom, wise-sayings

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“These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books

tags: ape, crocodile, curiosity, greed, kite

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