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“Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.”
Journals • Andre Gide““The older one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this miserable universe.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli“ “Everywhere was in silence, like the velvet feet of death. And I was condemned to live; to live!””
My Sweet Orange Tree • José Mauro de Vasconcelos““Prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli““He had started to suspect that his venerable father and his other teachers, that the wise Brahmans had already revealed to him the most and best of their wisdom, that they had already filled his expecting vessel with their richness, and the vessel was not full, the spirit was not content, the soul was not calm, the heart was not satisfied.””
Siddhartha • Hermann Hesse