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“About fame... Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“After a few months’ acquaintance with European “coffee,” one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.”
A Tramp Abroad • Mark Twain“To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.”
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman • Stefan Zweig“The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism • Oscar Wilde