Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind
“It is indisputable that the blacks have benefited from certain benefits of civilization.”
The visit of King Albert I to the Belgian Congo in 1928. Between propaganda and reality. https://www.congoforum.be/Upldocs/Het_bezoek_van_koning_Albert_I_aan_Belgi.compressed.pdf
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George W. Bush
(1946) 43rd President of the United States
2010s, 2011, Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)
“We do not benefit from a relationship”
Barack Obama
(1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, Queensland University Address (November 2014)
Context: We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside. And for the young people, practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That’s part of wisdom. But it’s also important to hang on to what you believe -- to know what you believe and then be willing to stand up for it. And what’s true for individuals is also true for countries.
“There is this first benefit from myths, that we have to search and do not have our minds idle.”
Sallustius
Roman philosopher and writer
III. Concerning myths; that they are divine, and why.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: There is this first benefit from myths, that we have to search and do not have our minds idle.
That the myths are divine can be seen from those who have used them. Myths have been used by inspired poets, by the best of philosophers, by those who established the mysteries, and by the Gods themselves in oracles. But why the myths are divine it is the duty of philosophy to inquire. Since all existing things rejoice in that which is like them and reject that which is unlike, the stories about the Gods ought to be like the Gods, so that they may both be worthy of the divine essence and make the Gods well disposed to those who speak of them: which could only be done by means of myths.
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 72
“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
Sun Tzu
(-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Art of War, Chapter II · Waging War