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“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”
― That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic
― That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic
“Above all, it taught him how to listen, to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Meaning and reality were not somewhere beyond things, they were in them, in everything.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes wide open in wonder. Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.”
― The Revolt of the Masses
― The Revolt of the Masses
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