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Michael Partyka Jr
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We shall learn more of the nature of man by watching his behavior through sixty centuries than by reading Plato and Aristotle, Spinoza and Kant. “All philosophy,” said Nietzsche, “has now fallen forfeit to history.”


“Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic

“Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.”
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“Utram bibis? Aquam an undam? Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?”
― The Magus
― The Magus

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