“The future is made of the same stuff as the present.”
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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Humility is attentive patience.
