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The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 04, 2016 09:40AM

Yikai’s Quotes

“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: stoicism

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“Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: goodness, knowledge, understanding

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“Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: happiness

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“In our time the most warlike nations are the most rude and ignorant.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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