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“The exchange of one fear or pleasure or pain for another fear or pleasure or pain, which are measured like coins, the greater with the less, is not the exchange of virtue. O, my dear Simmias, is there not one true coin, for which all things ought to exchange?—and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage or temperance or justice. ...in the true exchange, there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself are a purgation of them.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
The Alchemist • Paulo Coelho“There is nothing so wretched and foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness to expect evil before it arrives.”
Day's Collacon • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“If we all got angry together something might be done.”
The Return of the King • J.R.R Tolkien“Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius
