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Our goal with this book is to restore Stoicism to its rightful place as a tool in the pursuit of self-mastery, perseverance, and wisdom: something one uses to live a great life, rather than some esoteric field of academic inquiry.
“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
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“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.”
― Poke the Box
― Poke the Box
“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
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“In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes. Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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