A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play. Beyond Good and Evil
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written. Don Quixote
...do not courageous men endure death because they are afraid of yet greater evils? ...Then all but philosophers are courageous only from fear, and because they are afraid; and yet that a man should be courageous from fear, and because he is a coward, is surely a strange thing. The Trials Of Socrates
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
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