“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
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“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“There is no other way of guarding against adulation, than to make people understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. On the other hand, when everyone feels at liberty to tell you the truth, they will be apt to be lacking in respect to you.”
― The Prince - The Original Classic Edition
― The Prince - The Original Classic Edition
“If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.”
― The Shadow Rising
― The Shadow Rising
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