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I must be drunk to think that Thoreau's treatise on self-sufficiency and self-determination would be bracing for a person in sickbed. It's not very readable but very quotable.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
How can he remember well his ignorance—which his growth requires—who has so often to use his knowledge?
lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility or dilating into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generosity, that you may persuade your neighbor to let you make his shoes, or his hat, or his coat
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried.
We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Nevertheless, we will not forget that some Egyptian wheat was handed down to us by a mummy.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it

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Jacqueline Carey's world building is fairly interesting, but fictional court politics can tire me so.

for the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess.
The followers of Yeshua held that his coming was a prophecy, that Tiberium should fall and they should restore the throne of the One God; historians, Delaunay told us guardedly, held that the dispersal of Yeshuite financiers from the city of Tiberium had more to do with it.
“We do not choose our debts,” he said at length. “But indebted we are, both of us, to Anafiel Delaunay.
“Everyone desires trade. And it is a form of power, of freedom; the propagation of culture is the guarantor of immortality. How it must gall them, to look across the straits

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一直没看过“盗墓笔记”，真不觉得有什么萌的。开头的方言看得云里雾里，倒也有点趣味，后面三叔的文笔就完全呵呵了。又花了许多时间看人家的‘解疑’，看完了bs自己理解能力，就这样吧。