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“He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!”
To the Lighthouse • Virginia Woolf“ “Do not be surprised by anything, truth and people have two sides.””
Samarkand • Amin Maalouf“The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.”
Mark Twain's Notebook • Mark Twain““Fortune . . . shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli