“Some things can be, simply, too large for your heart. Rome, [Vauvenargues] wrote, was easy to love by its denizens when it was a small village, harder when it became a large empire. ” – @nntaleb

“It is easy to scam people by getting them into complication” ~ @nntaleb

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” ~ Lao Tzu

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Fire feeds on obstacles. – Marcus Aurelius

Humans are four billion years in the evolutionary making. If the sun burns out in six billion years, any human-based life form seeing it will be as different from us as we are from bacteria. h/t Martin Reese

Hurt people are the ones who hurt people