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“He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“They had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.”
Animal Farm • George Orwell““No one, not even the starvation artist himself knew how great his achievement really was, and his heart grew heavy.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka“I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique.”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset“Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes