'Un homme est riche de tout ce dont il peut se passer.'

'A man is rich in everything he can do without'.

— Henry David Thoreau

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Anarch-cow’s wisdom for the day

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness, give me truth. -- Into the wild (paraphrasing H. D. Thoreau)

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On War...

"Every ambitious would-be empire clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.”

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
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