In the One, above and below are the same, [just as] beginning and end are one in the circumference of a circle. That which is in conflict is also in concert; while things differ from one another, they are all contained in the most beautiful Unity. Fragments
Money and goods are certainly the best of references. Our Mutual Friend
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is -- a vice? Twilight of the Idols
[..] the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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