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““Prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli“The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. ”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.”
Discourses • Epictetus“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
Candide • Voltaire“Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent cause of disastrous behaviour. [...] The modern world provides us with abundant secular examples of admirable values to which we cling under conditions where those values no longer make sense [...] It appears to me that much of the rigid opposition to environmental concerns in the First World nowadays involves values acquired early in life and never again reexamined [...].”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond