Men must be flattered or destroyed, for they can avenge themselves for light offenses, not for serious ones; so that the offense that is done to man must be of such an order...
Reading a lot is one of the paths to originality; a person is so much more original and peculiar the more they know what others have said.
Miguel Unamuno
Woe to him who worries about the future!
Seneca
All men tremble at punishment and all men fear death; Remember that you resemble them, and therefore do not kill or contribute to the killing.
Buddhist Texts
The man who intends to always be coherent in his thinking and in his moral decisions is either a walking mummy or, if he has not managed to suffocate all his vitality...
Aldous Huxley
Examine everything, retain the good. - 1 Thessalonians 5:21
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