If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Short-term thinking makes people desperate, ungenerous, impulsive. Long-term thinking makes people calm, gracious, controlled. The mighty pyramids and cathedrals were built by civilizations with a long time horizon, so it is with the life of a great man.

The Stoic Emperor

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Thomas Jefferson

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Martin Luther King

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