“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
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“There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”
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“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere."
"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
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"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
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