What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?
SenecaTags: cengiz-çevik jimi-the-kewl natural-questions seneca
Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...
SenecaQuanto potius, deorum opera celebrare quam Philippi aut Alexandri latrocinia...
SenecaTags: alexander seneca deorum-opera philippus
distringit librorum multitudo
(the abundance of books is distraction)
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We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole
SenecaI think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.... I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space.
Zadie SmithTags: life time sculpture seneca engaging
Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling the unknown in our minds with expectations of the tragic, we can choose to fill the void with a different expectation – the expectation of adventure.
For example, Seneca, the Greek philosopher, refused to be afraid of what he did not know. When asked if he was afraid of dying, he replied, “Absolutely not, why should I be afraid of something I know nothing about.” His orientation toward the unknown of death was not to fill the gap in his understanding with horror but potential.
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Ronan's smile was sharp and hooked as one of the creature's claws. "'A sword is never a killer; it is a tool in the killer's hand'."
"I can't believe Noah didn't stick around to help."
"Sure you can. Never trust the dead.
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