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Simon Drew

On Hoping for the Best and Preparing for the Worst

“Oh,” say you, “those stories have been droned to death in all the schools; pretty soon, when you reach the topic ‘On Despising Death,’ you will be telling me about Cato.” But why should I not tell you about Cato, how he read Plato’s book on that last glorious night, with

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Simon Drew September 28, 2023
Simon Drew

On Hope and Fear

The first thing which philosophy undertakes to give is fellow-feeling with all men; in other words, sympathy and sociability.

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Simon Drew September 26, 2023
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
– CICERO
"If the way is not seeking always better ways, it is not the way."
– ROCCO JARMAN
"Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars."
- EPICTETUS
"What is linear is not history but the human spirit."
– PROF. JOE SIRACUSA
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
– ALBERT CAMUS
"Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day."
– C.G. JUNG
"If I had not been admitted to these studies it would not have been worth while to have been born."
- Seneca
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Beauty is always worth it."
- Sharon Lebell
"It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"The Soul that would be touched by beauty must sometimes walk alone."
- Goethe
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in moving towards what will be."
- Kahlil Gibran
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