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“A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always believed, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust. ”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head.”
Of Mice and Men • John Steinbeck“By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I think that I shall never fall, but that it is a safe answer both for me and any one else to give — that by means of beauty beautiful things become beautiful.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.”
The Enchiridion • Epictetus“Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.”
Mark Twain's Notebook • Mark Twain