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“Monsters exist,” wrote Primo Levi of his experience at Auschwitz. “But they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are . . . the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
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Stacy Schiff
“Over years of war it had been turned upside down, the constitution trampled, appointments made on whim and against the law.”
Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

Dale Carnegie
“Plato said that “the greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately”!”
Dale Carnegie, How To Stop Worrying & Start Living

Ben Macintyre
“In Stalin’s paranoid police state, the safest way to ensure survival was to denounce someone else.”
Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Stacy Schiff
“There were three possibilities for the future, predicted an exasperated Cicero, “endless armed conflict, eventual revival after a peace, and complete annihilation.”
Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

Marcus Aurelius
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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