“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
Aphorism #33
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“Often you only have to ask What would I do if I were not afraid?”
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“It is less important to escape pain than to avoid exceptionless rules.”
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“Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.”
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“Water deepens where it has to wait.”
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“First he gathered what he needed. Then he needed to keep gathering what he used to need.”
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“A belief is a question we have put aside so we can get on with what we believe we have to do.”
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“The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.”
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“Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.”
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“The great consolation of righteousness is never having to worry whether you’re a bore.”
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“That others know: science. That others choose: politics.”
Aphorism #112
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“Your choices: spend, and believe in things; save, and believe in money.”
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“Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.”
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“The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.”
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“I’ve spent so long trying to fly that it’s too late to set out on foot.”
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“The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.”
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“Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.”
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“God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.”
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“The viruses that co-opt the machinery of our cells; the stories we allow to enter and explain us.”
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“The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.”
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