“Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.”
― The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
― The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same -- everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same.”
― 1984
― 1984
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