Category: Maxims

Maxims

Getting Along

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“People get along better as neighbors than roommates.” Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game This is the...
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Long Life

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"A long life has become perfectly normal.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988 Subtitle “The Meaning of...
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How to Live

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"We live for ourselves, only when we live for others." Leo Tolstoy in A Calendar of Wisdom The picture is...
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Happiness

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"The Secret of Happiness?" "Enjoy small pleasures." Leo Tolstoy in A Calendar of...
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Life

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“Life is a brief interval of consciousness between two eternities of oblivion.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass...
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No Enemies

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"Be strict in judging yourself and gentle in judging others, and you will have no enemies." Chinese Wisdom...
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Ignorance

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Ignorance is not bliss. I lost the attribution on this quote and Google give multiple sources. I did find...
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Easy Wisdom

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“Wisdom after the event is by far the easiest kind of wisdom to attain, and by far the least...
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Death

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"If death is but sleep made permanent, we all know there is nothing terrible in it. And if death is a transfer to...
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Learning

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“It is impossible to learn that which you think you already know.” Epictetus A Greek Stoic...
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