Nick

“It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.”
― Otto von Bismarck

“What I learned on my own I still remember”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment
awaiting perfection.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
― Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1935