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1762·Geneva, Switzerland
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act, to make use of our organs, senses, faculties — of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
G.K. Chesterton·1910The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Adam Smith·1776The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations; though the effect of these obstructions is always more or less either to encroach upon its freedom, or to diminish its security.
Rumi·1260Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
