“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.”

― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“He who thinks little, errs much.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“For my own part, I should be inclined to think freedom less necessary in great things than in little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without possessing the other.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

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