Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

Love is just a contact of no refusal.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Bec...