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If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you can become better yourself. —Tolstoy

"La diferencia entre veneno material y veneno intelectual reside en que casi todos los venenos materiales son desagradables al paladar, pero el veneno intelectual, que adopta la forma de periódicos baratos o libros malos, a veces resulta atractivo, por desgracia" .

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one’s life. —Rousseau