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From The Complete Essays of Montaigne:
- Montaigne Quote
"In order always to be learning something by communication with others (which is one of the finest schools there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those I talk with back to the subjects they know best....For most often the...
- Montaigne Quote
"Fortune does us neither good not hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition."...
- Seneca Quote
From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 44 (Kindle): Suppose, then, that you were not that Roman knight, but a freedman, you might nevertheless by your own efforts come to be the only free man amid a throng of gentlemen. "How?" you ask. Simply by distinguishing...
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- The Experimental Life: An Introduction To Michel De Montaigne – By Ryan Holiday
In late 1569, Michel de Montaigne was given up as dead after being flung from a galloping horse.As his friends carried his limp and bloodied body home, he watched life slip away from his physical self, not traumatically but almost flimsily, like some...
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Montaigne quote
From The Complete Essays of Montaigne:
"Look on each day as if it were your last, And each unlooked-for hour will seem a boon." HORACEIt is uncertain where death awaits us; let us await it everywhere. Premeditation of death is premeditation of freedom. He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint. There is nothing evil in life for the man who has thoroughly grasped the fact that to be deprived of life is not an evil.
- Montaigne Quote
"In order always to be learning something by communication with others (which is one of the finest schools there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those I talk with back to the subjects they know best....For most often the...
- Montaigne Quote
"Fortune does us neither good not hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition."...
- Seneca Quote
From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 44 (Kindle): Suppose, then, that you were not that Roman knight, but a freedman, you might nevertheless by your own efforts come to be the only free man amid a throng of gentlemen. "How?" you ask. Simply by distinguishing...
- Links
Sanjay Bakshi lecture: Klein vs. Kahneman (LINK) Peter Thiel profiled in Fortune (LINK) Related book: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the FutureHow the Next iPhone Could Finally Kill the Credit Card (LINK) Why Buffett's son bought...
- The Experimental Life: An Introduction To Michel De Montaigne – By Ryan Holiday
In late 1569, Michel de Montaigne was given up as dead after being flung from a galloping horse.As his friends carried his limp and bloodied body home, he watched life slip away from his physical self, not traumatically but almost flimsily, like some...