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“For in order to command well, we should know how to submit; and he who submits with a good grace will some time become worthy of commanding.”
On The Laws • Marcus Tullius Cicero“ "In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius““For he alone, and no other initiate, knew how easy it was to starve. It was the easiest thing in the world. He did not keep this fact a secret, but no one believed him.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka“I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds … This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset“What we experience in dreams -- assuming that we experience it often -- belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.”
Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche