To desire is to be permanently disappointed and disturbed, since
everything we desire in this world is empty and corrupt and paltry.

-Marcus Aurelius
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why
so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled --
because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly
to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience
and forbearance.

-Friedrich Nietzsche
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who
are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

-Albert Einstein
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is
noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience,
which is the bitterest.

-Confucius

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards
the religion of solitude.

-Aldous Huxley

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers
his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

-Aristotle