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“Quoth Siddhartha: “You know, my dear, that I already as a young man, in those days when we lived with the penitents in the forest, started to distrust teachers and teachings and to turn my back to them. I have stuck with this. Nevertheless, I have had many teachers since then. A beautiful courtesan has been my teacher for a long time, and a rich merchant was my teacher, and some gamblers with dice. Once, even a follower of Buddha, traveling on foot, has been my teacher; he sat with me when I had fallen asleep in the forest, on the pilgrimage. I’ve also learned from him, I’m also grateful to him, very grateful. But most of all, I have learned here from this river and from my predecessor, the Ferryman Vasudeva. He was a very simple person, Vasudeva, he was no thinker, but he knew what is necessary just as well as Gotama, he was a perfect man, a saint.””
Siddhartha • Hermann Hesse“my lad, as far as I can see, free-thinking women are all monsters." ”
Fathers and Sons • Ivan Turgenev“The avaricious are thrifty with time as well as money.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig““Let the confusion begin, no one can stop it, no one can escape, and some look for ways to take advantage of it.””
Samarkand • Amin Maalouf“As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius