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“Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.”
Discourses • Epictetus“Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“All office workers are afraid of being late for work.”
The Post Office Girl • Stefan Zweig“How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it; for they never come to a man together, and yet he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of one head or stem.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.”
Discourses • Epictetus