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“Because diseases have been the biggest killers of people, they have also been decisive shapers of history. Until World War II, more victims of war died of war-borne microbes than of battle wounds.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“I consist of a little body and a soul.”
Book VI • Marcus Aurelius“I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.”
Reflections on Literature and Morality • Andre Gide“Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.”
The Hobbit • J.R.R Tolkien“As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.”
Fragment • Epictetus