Deceitus Maximus

veritas numquam perit.

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"The final test of freedom is this:
Can you remain the same person in praise, in insult, in gain, and in loss?"

-Seneca

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"There is no peace for the man who has seen what he could become."

— Epictetus

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own." — Marcus Aurelius

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“One can only live while one is intoxicated by life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud.”

— Leo Tolstoy

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgment about them."

-Epictetus

[Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince ⚔️ @NiccoloDaily]

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god."
-Aristotle

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"The other side shall be heard as well."

-Seneca

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"Pain is neither unbearable nor unending, as long as you keep in mind its limits and do not magnify them in your imagination."

-Marcus Aurelius

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them."

-Epictetus

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often and sometimes frightened but no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

-Rudyard Kipling

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."

-René Descartes

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy."

-William Yeats

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

@Thucydiocy Thanks for letting me know. Internet can be misleading sometimes

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."

-Thucydides

[Deceitus Maximus @OpusMagnum42]

"There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men."

-Marcus Aurelius