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“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
― The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims
― The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims
“Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“Friend, lay hold with a desperate grasp, ere it is too late, on Freedom, on Tranquility, on Greatness of soul!”
― The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
― The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.”
― Civilisation
― Civilisation
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