“Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.”
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Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
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“Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Il est faux que l’égalité soit une loi de la nature. La nature n’a rien fait d’égal; la loi souveraine est la subordination et la dépendance.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827) French engineer and physicist
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Context: In choosing a theory, one should pay attention to simplicity in hypotheses only. Simplicity in computation can be of no weight in the balance of probabilities. Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little: it is a principle that the development of physics constantly supports by new evidence.
Karl Marx book Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Private Property and Communism, p. 43.
Paris Manuscripts (1844)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)