"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure." The Analects of Confucius
Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be made like this? Never Give In!
We must make the best use that we can of the things which are in our power, and use the rest according to their nature. Discourses
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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