"[H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble."

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“Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.”
“In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.”
“Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.”
“There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.”
“It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.”
“Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.”
“One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones.”
“O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.”

Source : Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.24

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