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— George Eliot, 1879
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“Says I to myself” should be the motto of my journal.
Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
In the mid-first century AD, Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca said, “If wisdom were offered me with the provision that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.”
Drew Eric Whitman • Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone (Cashvertising Series)
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before), you will, n
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“I’ll never be ashamed to quote a bad writer with a good saying.” —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 11.8
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
“The Things which hurt,” Benjamin Franklin wrote, “instruct.”