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“Contented poverty is an honorable estate.”
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“The world is always full of the sound of waves. The little fishes, abandoning themselves to the waves, dance and sing, and play, but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows its depth?”
― Musashi
― Musashi
“Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.”
― The Art of Happiness
― The Art of Happiness
“Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, for the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
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“Why should I fear death?
If I am, then death is not.
If Death is, then I am not.
Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.
Religious tyranny did domineer.
At length the mighty one of Greece
Began to assent the liberty of man.”
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If I am, then death is not.
If Death is, then I am not.
Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.
Religious tyranny did domineer.
At length the mighty one of Greece
Began to assent the liberty of man.”
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