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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 CHANCE, SUCCESS, HAPPINESS, AND STOICISM
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Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. The rest comes from loss of control.
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The opposite of success isn’t failure, it is namedropping.
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Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.
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You don’t become completely free by just avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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Fortune punishes the greedy by making him poor and the very greedy by making him rich.
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Quite revealing of human preferences that more suicides come from shame or loss of financial and social status than medical diagnoses.
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“Wealthy” is meaningless and has no robust absolute measure; use intead the subtractive measure “unwealth”, that is, the difference, at any point in time, between what you have and what you would like to have.
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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
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I went to a happiness conference; researchers looked very unhappy.
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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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