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“The soul, being a harmony, can never utter a note at variance with the tensions and relaxations and vibrations and other affections of the strings out of which she is composed; she can only follow, she cannot lead them? ...And yet do we not now discover the soul to be doing the exact opposite—leading the elements of which she is believed to be composed; almost always opposing and coercing them in all sorts of ways throughout life... threatening and reprimanding the desires, passions, fears, as if talking to a thing which is not herself...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes“Was it not the most wonderful thing on earth to be able to help one's fellow-creatures? I now knew that it was the only thing that was worth while.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig“At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.”
Seagull • Anton Chekhov“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”
Fragments • Heraclitus