Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
~ Ben Franklin
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Only virtuous people →
One heel nailed in →
Things worth the writing →
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
~ Ben Franklin
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If you must →
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away
~ Will Smith
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Words not deeds →
A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.
~ Ben Franklin
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Someone else holding the remote →
Living life without a plan is like watching televisions with someone else holding the remote control.
~ Peter Turla
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Live immediately →
Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: It snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately.
~ Seneca
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Don’t over-fill; Don’t over-sharpen →
Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life →
In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity. We must achieve this or perish. To do so, certain conditions must be fulfilled: men must be frank (falsehood confuses things), free (communication is impossible with slaves). Finally, they must feel a certain justice around them.
~ Albert Camus from, Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life – The Marginalian
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