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“Silence is often advantageous.”

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Menander, a renowned Greek dramatist, lived from 342 BC to 291 BC. His works are celebrated for their wit and humor, and have had a profound impact on the development of drama throughout history. more

“If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Stills Enough Pain Causes Acting Trouble Positive Thinking Negative Overcoming Positive Thoughts Somewhere Else Negative Thoughts Incoherence

Book:Thought as a System

Source: Thought as a System

“There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.”

Men Needs Pain Three Friendship Pleasure Class Preference Enmity Pain And Pleasure

Author:Ptolemy

“I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.”

Pain Cry Rabbits Snares

Author:James Stephens

“Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.”

Ends Pain Born Paid

Author:Francis Thompson

“History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.”

History Series Invention Imaginative

Author:Voltaire

“History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.”

Sound History Filled Shoes Slippers Wooden Shoes

Author:Voltaire

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