“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.”
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.”
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“No longer can democracy and freedom be fully and truly secure in one country, or even in a group of countries; their defence in a world saturated with injustice and inhabited by billions of humans denied human dignity will inevitably corrupt the very values they are meant to defend.”
― Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty
― Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty
“No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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