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“He only is anxious about the future, to whom the present is unprofitable.”
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“But when returning into herself she [the soul] reflects; then she passes into the realm of purity, and eternity, and immortality, and unchangeableness, which are her kindred, and with them she ever lives, when she is by herself and is not let or hindered; then she ceases from her erring ways, and being in communion with the unchanging is unchanging. And this state of the soul is called wisdom.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“There is no devil and no hell. Your soul will be dead even sooner than your body: fear nothing further.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra • F Nietzsche“ Food production, and competition and diffusion between societies, led as ultimate causes ... of conquest. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“The life which is implicated with fortune (depends on fortune) is like a winter torrent: for it is turbulent, and full of mud, and difficult to cross, and tyrannical, and noisy, and of short duration.”
Fragment • Epictetus