“When the war is intense, withdraw.”
“But just know evil is no fool because evil will have a great reason for its existence, while the fool will think he had good reason to become one, which is the fool that he is.”
Source: The Quote-DAH.: A Wise Choice was Surrounded by Wisdom.
“If you ever consider using the word trust, just know you should consider it as a check rather than a dollar because a dollar was earned by one deed, and a check was earned by many.”
Source: The Quote-DAH.: A Wise Choice was Surrounded by Wisdom.
“At this point we can finally see what's really at stake in our peculiar habit of defining ourselves simultaneously as master and slave, reduplicating the most brutal aspects of the ancient household in our very concept of ourselves, as masters of our freedoms, or as owners of our very selves. It is the only way that we can imagine ourselves as completely isolated beings. There is a direct line from the new Roman conception of liberty – not as the ability to form mutual relationships with others, but as the kind of absolute power of "use and abuse" over the conquered chattel who make up the bulk of a wealthy Roman man's household – to the strange fantasies of liberal philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, and Smith, about the origins of human society in some collection of thirty- or forty-year-old males who seem to have sprung from the earth fully formed, then have to decide whether to kill each other or begin to swap beaver pelts.”
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“If you choose not to be independent, then you will not be fully in control of your future and can be lost in it, because you are not certain where you are heading.”
Source: The Quote-DAH.: A Wise Choice was Surrounded by Wisdom.
“Also, a fruit of thought is that a great shield is created by truth and only the truth, lying can be foolish, just as a shield that is not equipped for battle.”
Source: The Quote-DAH.: A Wise Choice was Surrounded by Wisdom.
“Note to self #1:
Just because you’re always
willing to work harder
doesn’t mean you should.”
Source: Love and Gaslight
“Confucius say ...
"He who sleep with itchy butt wake with smelly finger.”
Source: 100 quotes by Confucius: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts
“suppose that when you begged for something desperately
a man should neither grant it you nor give sympathy even; but later when you were glutted with all your heart's desire, should give it then, when charity was no charity at all?”
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“Killing is not something one should have little regard for,' he replied. 'It should always affect you, no matter how many times you do it. It should always leave a mark. And if it doesn't, then I would have grave concerns about the individual.”
Source: A Shadow in the Ember