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“If virtue promises good fortune and tranquility and happiness, certainly also the progress towards virtue is progress towards each of these things.”
Discourses • Epictetus“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
Emma • Jane Austen“Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.”
The Third Wave • Alvin Toffler““Is there anything surprising in one who passes from divine contemplations to the evil state of man, misbehaving himself in a ridiculous manner; if, while his eyes are blinking and before he has become accustomed to the surrounding darkness, he is compelled to fight in courts of law, or in other places, about the images or the shadows of images of justice, and is endeavouring to meet the conceptions of those who have never yet seen absolute justice?””
Republic • Plato“"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius