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“If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
The Winter of Our Discontent • John Steinbeck““Neither of the two men, at these times, showed the least hostility toward me, and everything went so smoothly, so amiably, that I had an absurd impression of being ‘one of the family.‘””
Stranger • Albert Camus“ "What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“In fact, one of the main lesson to be learned from the collapses of the Maya, Anasazi, Easter Islanders, and those other past societies (as well as from the recent collapse of the Soviet Union) is that a society's steep decline may begin only a decade or two after the society reaches its peak numbers, wealth, and power. [...] The reason is simple: maximum population, wealth, resource consumption, and waste production mean maximum environmental impact, approaching the limit where impact outstrips resources. On reflection, it's no surprise that declines of societies tend to follow swiftly on their peaks.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond