Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
A desk library
The Commonplace
A curated library of classical, philosophical, and darkly comic quotes — grouped by author, theme, and tradition, and made to print.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Men are disturbed not by events, but by their opinions about events.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
He merits praise who does what he ought to do, not what he is allowed to do.
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
No man is so foolish as to desire war more than peace: for in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.