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What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment.
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Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
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You want to avoid being disliked without being envied or admired.
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Read nothing from the past 100 years; eat no fruits from the past 1,000 years; drink nothing from the past 4,000 years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over 40. A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of 30.
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Some pursuits are much duller from the inside. Even piracy, they say.
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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
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Catholic countries had more serial monogamy than today, but without the need for divorce—life expectancy was short; marriage duration was much, much shorter.
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The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
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You will be civilized on the day when you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
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Someone who says “I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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For most, success is the harmful passage from the camp of the hating to the camp of the hated.
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To see if you like where you are, without the chains of dependence, check if you are as happy returning as you were leaving.
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The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
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The Web is an unhealthy place for someone hungry for attention.
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I wonder if anyone ever measured the time it takes, at a party, before a mildly successful stranger who went to Harvard makes others aware of it.
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People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels people you don’t want to resemble when you grow up.
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It is a good practice to always apologize, except when you have done something wrong.
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Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, noble, elegant, robust, and heroic life.
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Some, like most bankers, are so unfit for success, that they look like dwarves dressed in giants’ clothes.
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Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done you, you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
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Most feed their obsessions by trying to get rid of them.
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It is as difficult to change someone’s opinions as it is to change his tastes.
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