Why, within Eurasia, were European societies, rather than those of the Fertile Crescent or China or India, the ones that colonized America and Australia, took the lead in technology, and became politically and economically dominant in the modern world? Guns, Germs And Steel

"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today” 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos

I am quite ready, Simmias and Cebes, that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind; and therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead, and, as has been said of old, some far better thing for the good than for the evil. The Trials Of Socrates

And life itself spoke this secret to me. "Behold," it said, "I am that which must ever overcome itself." Thus Spoke Zarathustra