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قفس تنگ است و در بسته است
نه تنها بال و پر، بال نظر بسته است

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در حکومت دیکتاتوری مردم حق ندارن. فقط تکلیف
اگر نعمت و فرصتی هم هست لطف سلطانه نه حق مردم
این جور وقتا مشخص می شه
ای دریغ

“You aren’t likely to read your own notebooks.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS
چقدر کتاب خلاصه کردم و نوت برداری و چقدر یادداشت نوشتم. همش برای اینکه یک روز برگردم و بخونم. اما آیا پادشاه روم راست می گه!؟ تا اینجاش که حق با اونه
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The good things in life cost what they cost. The unnecessary things are not worth it at any price.

where our heart is set, there our impediment lies
Epictetus

بعد از شصت و پنج ساعت گوش دادن به هابیت و ارباب حلقه ها، کله ام پر داستان های جادویی شده

دست حسرت گزی ار یک درمت فوت شود
هیچت از عمر تلف کرده پشیمانی نیست
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knowing is not enough. we must do ...

it's good

ذره ذره، پاراگراف به پاراگراف، پیش می رم ببینم اولین تجربه فرانسوی خونی واقعی چطوره. اگه سخت بود به تعویق می افته تا اوضاع بهتر بشه

اولویت این هم تغییر کرد
یک روز مغزم زیر فشار این همه کتاب با اولویت بالا منفجر می شه

این کتاب چهار ساله که توی لیست در حال خودن منه. خیلی کتاب های دیگه اومدن و رفتن. بالاخره شروع کردمش

looooooong overdue ...

رسیدم به اونجایی که می گه اگه کسی بهت فحش داد چکارش کنی
:)

If we cannot resist pleasures, we will end up playing, Marcus says, the role of slave, “twitching puppet wise at every pull of self-interest,” and we will spend our life “ever grumbling at today or lamenting over tomorrow.” To avoid this fate, we must take care to prevent pains and pleasures from overwhelming our rational capacity. We must learn, as Marcus puts it, to “resist the murmurs of the flesh.”

"You will someday eat your last meal, and soon thereafter you will take your last breath"

how liberating ...

We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.

There is, in other words, a danger that when you are on your deathbed, you will look back and realize that you wasted your one chance at living. Instead of spending your life pursuing something genuinely valuable, you squandered it because you allowed yourself to be distracted by the various baubles life has to offer.

The reason subscription (and RSS) was abandoned was because in a subscription economy the users are in control. In the one-off model, the competition might be more vicious, but it is on the terms of the publisher. Having followers instead of subscribers—where readers have to check back on sites often and are barraged with a stream of refreshing content laden with ads—is much better for their bottom line.

there is a last time for everything

Stoicism is about the domestication, not necessarily the elimination, of emotions. It is not about turning humans into vegetables. My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

من هم کتابدار گوودریدز شدم. خواهش می کنم تشویق نکنید! از این به بعد هیچ کتابی از دستم در امان نیست همه چیز رو به هم می ریزم
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so far so good