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Monks are of two kinds: those who are beloved of God, and those who take God’s place; the first endures with acceptance, while the other retreats with pride.

Working in a morgue could have been my therapy.

Whether a civilization is capable or not depends on how centralized it is, because only the totalitarian ones can gather so uniformly around a single fire; in democracies, there is no such fire—and that is why they are made of useless ashes.

It is not knowledge but intelligence that matters, for a clever person, even if ignorant, can acquire new knowledge, whereas a knowledgeable but stupid person, even if well-informed, cannot learn anything new.

Scars may heal, but the wound itself does not.