Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
-John Flavel
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
-Epicurus
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
Vacuity, tranquillity, mellowness, quietness and taking no action characterise things of the universe at peace and represent the ultimate Tao and virtue. Therefore abide in them.
-Zhuangzi
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
-Bertrand Russell
