A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
Alex Munthe
Category: simplify
#54 – JKT on School
You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.
John Kennedy Toole
#40 – Buffett on Simplicity
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett
#32 – Tacitus on Law
The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus
#31 – Pascal
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Pascal