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“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
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“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
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“Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.”
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“Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture:
Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth;
Obsession with sex and perversions of sex;
Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original;
Widening disparity between very rich and very poor;
Increased demand to live off the state.”
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Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth;
Obsession with sex and perversions of sex;
Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original;
Widening disparity between very rich and very poor;
Increased demand to live off the state.”
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Nathan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nathan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,155 books
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172 friends
927 books
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54 friends
1,144 books
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99 friends
333 books
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252 friends
580 books
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70 friends
487 books
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19 friends
46 books
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2 friends
981 books
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80 friends
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