Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. -
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
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- Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
- Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
- The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
- Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay.