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“It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.”
The Enchiridion • Epictetus“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
Moby Dick • Herman Melville“...undefiled by pleasures, invulnerable to any pain, untouched by arrogance, unaffected by meanness, an athlete in the greatest of all contests—the struggle not to be overwhelmed by anything that happens. ”
Book III • Marcus Aurelius“There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?”
Studies in Pessimism • Arthur Schopenhauer