Veritas odium parit—truth brings hatred.
To avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.)
Those who do too much somewhere do too little elsewhere
The studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it.
The richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.
The best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals.
That in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit of agitation gives resources to souls and what makes the species prospe...
Talking about radiation, few wonder why, after hundreds of million of years of having our skins exposed to sun rays, we suddenly need so much protection from them—is it that our exposure is more harmf...
Studying courage in textbooks doesn’t make you any more courageous than eating cow meat makes you bovine.
Social treadmill effect: You get rich, move to rich neighborhoods, then become poor again. To that add the psychological treadmill effect; you get used to wealth and revert to a set point of satisfact...
Preponderates,
Notion of alternative accounting: $ 10 million earned through Russian roulette does not have the same value as $ 10 million earned through the diligent and artful practice of dentistry.
Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact—and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings. Likewise, never ask a trader if he is profitable; y...
In Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent),
He tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.
Cocksure prophet. Where I beg to differ with the great
Certain professionals, while believing they are experts, are in fact not. Based on their empirical record, they do not know more about their subject matter than the general population, but they are mu...
But at least I know that I cannot forecast and a small number of people (those I care about) take that as an asset.
An erudite can be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and such dissatisfaction is a wonderful shield against Platonicity, the
An ad hominen attack against an intellectual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.