When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
JORDAN PETERSONIt is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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