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"If these things are done properly I will send rain when the people are in need. But they must also live good lives. When a stranger comes to the village, feed him. Do not injure one another, because all beings deserve to live together without injury being done to them. When people are old and cannot work any more, do not turn them out to shift for themselves, but take care of them." 14 hours, 13 min ago

 
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Erasmus
“Your library is your paradise.”
Desiderius Erasmus

“Sovereign power is nothing if it does not care for the welfare of others, and . . . it is the task of a good ruler to keep his power in check, to resist the passions of unbridled desire and implacable rage, and to realize that, as the dictator Caesar used to say, the recollection of past cruelty is a wretched provision for old age.”
Ammianus Marcellinus, The Later Roman Empire

Jarem Sawatsky
“I am not entitled to life without death. I embrace sacred life. I embrace sacred death. I embrace the growing and crumbling in between.”
Jarem Sawatsky, Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain

“[N]othing is uglier than supreme authority combined with a cruel nature.”
Ammianus Marcellinus, The Later Roman Empire

William Faulkner
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.”
William Faulkner, Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962

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