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Parerga and Paralipomena • Arthur Schopenhauer“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
Bleak House • Charles Dickens“How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit. ”
Book V • Marcus Aurelius