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“It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?”
Discourses • Epictetus“They’re afraid because they have never accepted themselves. A community consisting exclusively of people afraid of the unknown in themselves! They all feel that the rules they live by are no longer valid, that they’re following outdated commandments; neither their religions nor their morality, nothing is suited to what we need. For a century and more, Europe has done nothing but study and build factories! They know exactly how many grams of powder it takes to kill someone, but they don’t know how to pray to God, they don’t even know how to be contented for an hour at a time.”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes““A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness — / Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!””
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam“ "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius