Peter Singer
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“We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.”
― The Consolations of Philosophy
― The Consolations of Philosophy
“Towards the end of the eighteenth century, Englishmen began building houses on the east coast of this warm land of curious life and unknown vastness. They had selected, more by luck than exploration, the banks of a magnificent harbour, a place which posterity generally recognized as one of the best sites in the world.”
― The Australians: Insiders and Outsiders on the National Character since 1770
― The Australians: Insiders and Outsiders on the National Character since 1770
“Epicurus observed that: Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one’s entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.”
― The Consolations of Philosophy
― The Consolations of Philosophy
“Why is it, Caesar, that there’s always a man like Lucius Metellus?” “If there were not, Antonius, this world might work better. Though if this world worked better, there’d be no place in it for men like me,” said Caesar.”
― Caesar
― Caesar
“All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison.”
― The Wisdom of Life
― The Wisdom of Life
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