Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
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No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Source: Discourses - 108
It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
Source: Discourses - 108
People to whom such things are still denied come to imagine that everything good will be theirs if only they could acquire them. Then they get them: and their longing is unchanged, their anxiety is unchanged, their disgust is no less, and they still long for whatever is lacking. Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.
Source: Discourses
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