“Tranquility of the soul is wonderful, as is joyful peace of mind. If only, dear friend, these precious treasures, beautiful and priceless as they are, were not so fragile too.”Tagged: Life, Stoic
“Poor fool! Imagining everything to be so small, because you are yourself so small.”Tagged: Life, Stoic
“Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.”Tagged: Life, Stoic
“All our learned teachers and educators agree that children do not know why they want what they want; but no one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze, and like children, do know not where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they…”Tagged: strategy
“General notions and great conceit are always potetial creators of shock misfortune.”Tagged: strategy
“Some people keep knocking at the wall with a hammer and imagine they are hitting the nail on the head every time.”Tagged: strategy
“So divine an illumination is always linked to youth and productivity; and in very truth, Napoleon was one of the most productive men that ever lived.”Tagged: strategy