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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
“It isn’t events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them.”
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“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
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“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
“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
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