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“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary�s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“He looked at her again, now with the vague abject shyness that older men often have with young women, as though asking their indulgence for no longer being young.”
The Post Office Girl • Stefan Zweig““It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli“Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes