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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

 

Marcus Aurelius

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" Death is the undoing of all our sorrows, an end beyond which our ills cannot go; it returns us to that peace in which we reposed before we were born. If someone pities the dead, let him also pity those not yet born."

 

Seneca, Essay: To Marcia

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The better man may win, but he will be the worse man if he does

 

Seneca

 

He who has ownership of himself has lost nothing.  But how many men are in ownership of themselves?

 

Seneca

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On 6/16/2020 at 3:26 AM, jkjk said:

To the privileged, equality feels like oppression. - unknown

 

Yep and since everybody feels oppressed nowadays, how do we see where the privileges are? By challenging our own beliefs, questioning them if facts contradict them or reinforcing them if facts confirm them. Not many can do that nowadays.

 

Also, equality of opportunity is fair, but equality of outcome is oppression, but I'll stop there otherwise I might ramble on again. :laugh:

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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

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