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“Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig“A man who had two sons ... went to the first and said, "Son, go out and work in my vineyard today." But he answered and said, "I will not," but afterward he repented of it and he went. And the father went to the second and said the same. But he answered, "I will, sir," and he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?”
Works of Love • Soren Kierkegaard“ "Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify this instrument, we should need a demonstration; to rectify this demonstration, we should need an instrument: so here we are arguing in a circle. Seeing the senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason, so here we are retreating backwards to all eternity.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”
Fragment • Epictetus
