"Evil will always prevail, because good is dumb." -- Spaceballs

I have added this to my top 10 favorite quotes of all time

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

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Emily Dickinson:

All but Death, can be Adjusted—
Dynasties repaired—
Systems—settled in their Sockets—
Citadels—dissolved—

Wastes of Lives—resown with Colors
By Succeeding Springs—
Death—unto itself—Exception—
Is exempt from Change—

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake

Every harlot was a virgin once.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire

"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities." Sigmund Freud

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin