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“ "By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“To learn to see -- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”
Twilight of the Idols • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.”
De Providentia • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.””
Midnight Library • Matt Haig““The vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli