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“Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“Though men are inseparable from the Logos, yet they are separated in it; and though they encounter it daily, they are alienated from it”
Fragments • Heraclitus“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
The Fifth Mountain • Paulo Coelho“The soul, being a harmony, can never utter a note at variance with the tensions and relaxations and vibrations and other affections of the strings out of which she is composed; she can only follow, she cannot lead them? ...And yet do we not now discover the soul to be doing the exact opposite—leading the elements of which she is believed to be composed; almost always opposing and coercing them in all sorts of ways throughout life... threatening and reprimanding the desires, passions, fears, as if talking to a thing which is not herself...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond