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“history is a scene of such relentless suffering inflicted by human beings on themselves and on each other because – or, at any rate, largely because – there have been endless individuals who were sure they knew the truth and sought to get others to agree with them. For those who feel sure they have the answers are usually pretty keen to impose them on others.”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer recounts a fable in which he compares human beings to porcupines. On a cold day, the porcupines huddled together for warmth, but, in doing so, hurt each other with their spines. So they moved apart, but in this way became cold again.”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“So theirs was not like Hollywood movie love; more like the love between crocodiles.”
― James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

“All of us are inconsiderate and imprudent, all unreliable, dissatisfied, ambitious … corrupt,’ as the Roman philosopher Seneca reminds us pithily. ‘Therefore, whatever fault he censures in another man, every man will find it residing in his own heart’ (‘On Anger’: 40).”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity