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“If virtue promises good fortune and tranquility and happiness, certainly also the progress towards virtue is progress towards each of these things.”
Discourses • Epictetus“Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. ”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius““Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.””
Siddhartha • Hermann Hesse“It was the first rift in my father’s sanctity, it was the first nick in the pillars on which my childish life had rested, and which every human being must destroy before he can become himself. It is of these experiences, invisible to everyone, that the inner, essential line of our destiny consists. That kind of rift and nick closes over again, it is healed and forgotten, but in the most secret chamber of the mind it continues to live and bleed.”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“Russia, are you not speeding along like a fiery and matchless troika?”
Dead Souls • Nikolai Gogol