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“Would you not think him an utter fool who wept because he was not alive a thousand years ago? And is he not just as much of a fool who weeps because he will not be alive a thousand years from now?
It is all the same; you will not be, and you were not. Neither of these periods of time belongs to you.”
― Letters from a Stoic
It is all the same; you will not be, and you were not. Neither of these periods of time belongs to you.”
― Letters from a Stoic
“Where there is great power to do wrong, to live and to die justly is a hard thing.”
― Gorgias
― Gorgias
“I should prefer to see you abandoning grief that it abandoning you.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“It is the dharma of a scorpion to sting, But it is the dharma of a human to save.”
― The Bhagavad Gita
― The Bhagavad Gita
“The very bad men come from the class of those who have power. And yet in that very class there may arise good men, and worthy of all admiration they are, for where there is great power to do wrong, to live and to die justly is a hard thing, and greatly to be praised, and few there are who attain to this.”
― Gorgias
― Gorgias
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