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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say read more
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in read more
The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
The trodden path is the safest.
The trodden path is the safest.
The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul read more
The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best read more
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.
