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Seneca
“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.”
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

Carlos Fuentes
“I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public, I’m looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.”
Carlos Fuentes

George Santayana
“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

Marcus Aurelius
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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