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“Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“"There, Master Niketas," Baudolino said, "when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds," he said, "to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one."”
Baudolino • Umberto Eco“Reading is thinking with some one else's head instead of one's own.”
Parerga and Paralipomena • Arthur Schopenhauer“Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.”
Autumn Leaves • Andre Gide“Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.”
Day's Collacon • Lucius Annaeus Seneca