The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

An honest thinker will highlight and confront the most intimidating counterargument. A dishonest thinker will seek out the most ludicrous counterargument and pretend it is the only counterargument.

The Stoic Emperor

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

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