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“Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.”
The Post Office Girl • Stefan Zweig“For after death, as they say, the genius of each individual, to whom he belonged in life, leads him to a certain place in which the dead are gathered together for judgment, whence they go into the world below, following the guide who is appointed to conduct them from this world to the other; and when they have there received their due and remained their time, another guide brings them back again after many revolutions of ages.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“ "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius““He had no craving for truth, and had not sought it;spellbound by vice and lying, his conscience had slept or been silent. Like a stranger, like an alien from another planet, he had taken no part in the common life of men, and had been indifferent to their sufferings, their ideas, their religion, their sciences, their strivings, and their struggles. He had not said one good word, not written one line that was not useless and vulgar; he had not done his fellows one ha'p'orth of service, but had eaten their bread, drunk their wine, seduced their wives, lived on their thoughts, and to justify his contemptible, parasitic life in their eyes and his own, he had always tried to assume an air of being higher and better than they. Lies, lies...””
The Duel • Anton Chekhov