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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“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
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
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