Source: The Zahir
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
“He does not deserve your praise, but he deserves to be treated as if someday he might.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
OSCON 2002
Context: If you don't do something now, this freedom that you built, that you spend your life coding, this freedom will be taken away. Either by those who see you as a threat, who then invoke the system of law we call patents, or by those who take advantage of the extraordinary expansion of control that the law of copyright now gives them over innovation. Either of these two changes through law will produce a world where your freedom has been taken away. And, If you can't fight for your freedom... you don't deserve it.
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in Warren, Michigan (August 11, 2016)
Nul ne mérite d’être loué de bonté, s’il n’a pas la force d’être méchant: toute autre bonté n’est le plus souvent qu’une paresse ou une impuissance de la volonté.
Maxim 237.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.”
Source: The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence (2010), p. 53.
“Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
Commencement Speech at University of Southern California http://graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0067-schwarzenegger.htm (May 2009).
2000s
1989 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LYL1PTrtXo with James Dobson
“And it is a smaller thing to suffer the punishment than to have deserved it.”
Estque pati poenam quam meruisse minus.
I, i, 62; translation by Arthur Leslie Wheeler
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)
