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“A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche““And—such is my thinking, o Exalted One—no one attains deliverance through teaching!””
Siddhartha • Hermann Hesse“Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.”
The Art Of War • Sun Tzu“Man's character is his fate.”
Fragments • Heraclitus