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“Nothing is more uncommon than a very large or a very small man; and this applies generally to all extremes, whether of great and small, or swift and slow, or fair and foul, or black and white; and whether the instances you select be man or dogs or anything else, few are the extremes,but many are in the mean between them.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.”
Heartbreak House • George Bernard Shaw“The feeling of self-assurance derived from physical achievement always transfers itself to the mental sphere.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig““This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli“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