“L'homme ne sera parfait que lorsqu'il saura créer et détruire comme Dieu ; il sait déjà détruire, c'est la moitié du chemin de fait.”
― Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I:
― Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I:
“Alors, au fond de ce cœur malade naquit le premier germe d'un ulcère mortel”
― Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I
― Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I
“Some of the cultural, legal and political disparities between men and women reflect the obvious biological differences between the sexes. Childbearing has always been women’s job, because men don’t have wombs. Yet around this hard universal kernel, every society accumulated layer upon layer of cultural ideas and norms that have little to do with biology. Societies associate a host of attributes with masculinity and femininity that, for the most part, lack a firm biological basis.”
― Sapiens - A brief history of humankind (Marathi)
― Sapiens - A brief history of humankind (Marathi)
“A new branch of mathematics was developed over the last 200 years to deal with the more complex aspects of reality: statistics.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Suffering arises from craving; the only way to be fully liberated from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving; and the only way to be liberated from craving is to train the mind to experience reality as it is.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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