How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. The Waves
Know yourself and you will win all battles. The Art Of War
Variant Translation: Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already. Book VII
“An honorable man does not throw a stone into the well where he quenches his thirst!” Samarkand
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