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65 AD·Rome, Italy
It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
Through hardship to the stars.
Assert your right to your own time, and gather together and save the time which up till lately has been either taken from you or filched away or has simply passed by unused.
Isaac Newton·1676If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.
Matsuo Bashō·1680Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.
Siddhartha GautamaDo not go by revelation; Do not go by tradition; Do not go by hearsay; Do not go on the authority of sacred texts; Do not go on the grounds of pure logic; Do not go by a view that seems rational; Do not go by reflecting on mere appearances; Do not go along with a considered view because you agree with it; Do not go along on the grounds that the person is competent; Do not go along because "the recluse is our teacher." Kalamas, when you yourselves know: These things are unwholesome, these things are blameworthy; these things are censured by the wise; and when undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill, abandon them... Kalamas, when you know for yourselves: These are wholesome; these things are not blameworthy; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness, having undertaken them, abide in them.
