Sunday, 13 September
Two thoughts from Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
“Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
Monday, 14 September
Two thoughts from Federico García Lorca
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
“I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads.”
Tuesday, 15 September
Two thoughts from Fernando Pessoa
“Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I’ll build a castle.”
“Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.”
Wednesday, 16 September
Two thoughts from John Toland
“It is human nature that repeats itself, not history. We often learn more about the past from the present, in fact, than the reverse.”
“It is easier to start a war than end one.”
Thursday, 17 September
Two thoughts from John Trenchard
“The terrible tendency of publick corruption to ruin a state, exemplified in that of Rome, and applied to our own.”
“Good governors do not consider their people their prey.”
Friday, 18 September
Two thoughts from Algernon Sidney
“Liars need to have good memories.”
“Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.”
Saturday, 19 September
Two thoughts from Eugène Lonesco
“It isn’t what people think that’s important, but the reason they think what they think.”
“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”
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