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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
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“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
“Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.”
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“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.”
― Enchiridion
― Enchiridion
“We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.”
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Sean’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sean’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
9 books
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5,157 friends
671 books
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6,628 friends
1 book
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9 friends
555 books
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190 friends
0 books
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6 friends
2 books
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4 friends
769 books
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5 friends
0 books
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2 friends
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