We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

Vauvenargues
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  3. This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom... - Yuval Noah Harari

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  1. To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

  2. The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

  3. There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

  4. He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

  5. If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

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