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“Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.”
― Socrates

“In other words, are humans fundamentally social animals who strive hard to carve out room for their individuality, or are they individuals who form social contracts?”
― John J. Mearsheimer, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities

“The suffering of the disease is tolerable when its most serious threat has been underestimated.
Don't go to aggravate yourself and load yourself with complaints; The pain is slight if our prejudices add nothing to it. On the contrary, if you decide to stimulate yourself and say: “It's nothing, or, at least, it's insignificant; Let's hold on, it will stop", you will make it light, while you consider it such. It all depends on the opinion we form. Not only does he take ambition, sensuality, and avarice into consideration: it is in accordance with opinion that he feels pain. Everyone is as unfortunate as they imagine themselves to be.
I think we have to put an end to complaints about past pain, and with such expressions: “No one has ever had it worse. How many torments, how many misfortunes have I endured! Nobody believed I would recover. How many times have I been mourned by my loved ones, how many times have I been evicted by doctors! Those who are spread out on the rack are not torn as much. Even if these regrettable stories are true, they have passed. What good is it for you to insist on past pains and make yourself miserable because you were? What reason is there for everyone to greatly increase their evils and deceive themselves? Afterwards, what was painful to endure, it is pleasant to have endured: it is human that one rejoices at the end of one's misfortune. Two defects must be eliminated: fear for the future and the memory of former adversity. This one no longer affects me, that one doesn't yet.”
― Seneca

“I think the tragedy in life is to be so timid you don't play hard enough.”
― Charles T. Munger