I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. The Picture of Dorian Gray
For whoever has what he has from the God himself clearly has it at first hand; and he who does not have it from the God himself is not a disciple. Let us assume that it is otherwise, that the contemporary generation of disciples had received the condition from the God, and that the subsequent generations were to receive it from these contemporaries – what would follow? Philosophical Fragments
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. Book II
Because diseases have been the biggest killers of people, they have also been decisive shapers of history. Until World War II, more victims of war died of war-borne microbes than of battle wounds. Guns, Germs And Steel
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