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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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by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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)

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- 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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1. Peak-end Rule:

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

Remind to make them as sweet as possible.

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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Use radical inflexibility to reach long-term goals that would be unrealizable if their behavior were more flexible.

4. Reality Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings

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1. "The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom."

- Voltaire.

2. "The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes."

- Voltaire.

3. "Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."

- Voltaire.

4. "Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life.

Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake."

- Voltaire.
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1. "The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have."

- Marcus Aurelius

2. "Receive without conceit, release without struggle."

- Marcus Aurelius

3. "To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony."

- Marcus Aurelius

4. "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. "

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1. "The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

- Soren Kierkegaard

2. "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."

- Soren Kierkegaard

3. "People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness."

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4. "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

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The Feynman Technique

To learn anything:

Step 1: Identify a topic
Step 2: Try to explain it to a 5-year-old
Step 3: Study to fill in knowledge gaps
Step 4: Organize, convey, and review

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