[..] 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
But it is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it. Beware of Pity
The avaricious are thrifty with time as well as money. Beware of Pity
As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
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