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“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
Counsels and Maxims • Arthur Schopenhauer“Thus, because we are rapidly advancing along this non-sustainable course, the world's environmental problems will get resolved, in one way or another, within the lifetimes of the children and young adults alive today The only question is whether they will become resolved in pleasant ways of our own choice, or in unpleasant ways not of our choice, such as warfare, genocide, starvation, disease epidemics, and collapses of societies. While all of those grim phenomena have been endemic to humanity throughout our history, their frequency increases with environmental degradation, population pressure, and the resulting poverty and political instability.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
A Study in Scarlet • Arthur Conan Doyle“That time does not run backward, that is its wrath; "That which was"--that is the name of the stone it cannot roll.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra • F Nietzsche“The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.”
Day's Collacon • Lucius Annaeus Seneca