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“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.”
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.”
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