We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

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About Persius

Portrait of Persius

Aulus Persius Flaccus (; 4 December 34 – 24 November 62 AD) was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satire, he shows a Stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he considered to be the stylistic abuses of his poetic contemporaries. His...

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He conquers who endures.

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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

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The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

—Hazel Henderson

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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

—Rebecca West

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In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

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History

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