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15 Philosophy Quotes From "Cicero"

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 1. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
2. "Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors, and thieves."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
3. "More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

It will steal you blind."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
4. "The wise are instructed by reason,
average minds by experience,
the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
5. "Poor is the nation that has no heroes,

But poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
6. "A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious.

But it cannot survive treason from within...

For the traitor appears not to be a traitor...

He rots the soul of a nation...

He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
7. "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
8. "It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
9. "The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living.

The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time.

Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
10. "If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
11. "The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
12. "There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation.

Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
13. "More laws, less justice."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
14. "Politicians are not born; they are excreted."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
15. “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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1. The book is about decision-making under uncertainty/volatility.

- EVERYTHING either benefits or is harmed by volatility

- The FRAGILE is harmed (think a glass)

- The ROBUST is unchanged (think The Phoenix)

- The ANTIFRAGILE gets better (think The Hydra)

2.

- There is no way to accurately predict WHICH events will occur

- We CAN measure how fragile we are to events

- We CAN take steps to robustify ourselves

- When shit hits the fan, the fragile breaks

- This applies to the economy, politics, health, etc

3. Naive Interventionism

- Systems are COMPLEX

- Most are beyond our understanding

- When we intervene, we introduce potential harm

- These 2nd and 3rd order effects introduce MORE volatility into the system

- This makes systems even less predictable

- STAY in YOUR lane

4. Via Negativa: Removing is superior to Adding

- Less can be More

- Don't add, subtract

- Eliminate the Artificial

- Eliminate the Unnatural

- Eliminate the Unnecessary

Apply these in all areas of your life. When in doubt, SUBTRACT
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15 Powerful Quotes From Plato

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1. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

- Plato

2. "Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

- Plato

3. “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

- Plato

4. "Love is a serious mental disease."

- Plato
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1. Peak-end Rule:

You remember the high point and the end point of your holiday, but the rest is forgotten.

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2. Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.

A good life is not a stable state or condition.

The good life is only achieved through constant readjustment.

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1. “Any person capable of angering you becomes your master."

- Epictetus

2. “Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself."

- Epictetus

3. “Don't just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better."

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4. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

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15 of the most powerful and timeless insights from @Naval Ravikant

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1. “I, and I alone, am responsible for everything I think and feel."

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2. “Pain is a fact.

Suffering is a choice."

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3. “No one can compete with you on being you.

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1. "The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."

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2. "You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."

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3. "Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves."

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Operating in it means you stop playing *their* games and start playing *yours*.

This thread shares my framework—built through personal struggle—for finding and operating in your Zone of Genius:

First, let's get one thing straight.

Everyone has a Zone of Genius.

"Genius" here is a relative term, not an absolute.

It's not about being top 1% at something—it's about the unique space where your relative strengths are accentuated (and relative weaknesses masked).

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Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."

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1) Govern yourself

To quote Nietzsche:

“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.”

Most people need an external force to motivate them into action, or to keep them in check morally.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to oneself.

It’s imperative that a man learns to be his own leader, to act in accordance with his own beliefs, and to use his own values as a moral compass.

Such a man becomes elevated from a yes-man to a Superman.

2) Follow your own path

Nietzsche said:

“You have your way, and I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it doesn’t exist!”

The lesson here is that no one has the license to dictate your life’s trajectory.

Never let anyone interfere with your life, and you should never interfere with anyone’s life.
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