“And so of all other things;—justice is useful when they are useless, and useless when they are useful?” Republic
You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it. Atomic Habits
You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes. Parerga and Paralipomena
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown — even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to. By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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