I recommend all adventurous youths who abandon vessels in romantic islands during the rainy season to provide themselves with umbrellas. Typee
"Luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The people do not wish to be ruled nor oppressed by the nobles, and the nobles wish to rule and oppress the people.” The Prince
From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil. Book VII
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