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“Variant: That which is really beautiful has no need of anything. ”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig“ "Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. ”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius““For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men’s characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.””
Republic • Plato