"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire." The Analects of Confucius
“Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Variant translation: If I had to define man it would be: a biped, ungrateful. Notes from Underground
In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. Beware of Pity
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