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“We should repeat to ourselves, every day: I am one of the billions dragging himself across the earth’s surface. One, and no more. This banality justifies any conclusion, any behavior or action: debauchery, chastity, suicide, work, crime, sloth, or rebellion... Whence it follows that each man is right to do what he does.”

— Emil M. Cioran

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Emil M. Cioran Quote: “We should repeat to ourselves, every day: I am one of the billions dragging himself across the earth’s surface. One, and no more. This banality justifies any conclusion, any behavior or action: debauchery, chastity, suicide, work, crime, sloth, or rebellion... Whence it follows that each man is right to do what he does.”

“We should repeat to ourselves, every day: I am one of the billions dragging himself across the earth’s surface. One, and no more. This banality justifies any conclusion, any behavior or action: debauchery, chastity, suicide, work, crime, sloth, or rebellion... Whence it follows that each man is right to do what he does.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “We should repeat to ourselves, every day: I am one of the billions dragging himself across the earth’s surface. One, and no more. This banality justifies any conclusion, any behavior or action: debauchery, chastity, suicide, work, crime, sloth, or rebellion... Whence it follows that each man is right to do what he does.”

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “We should repeat to ourselves, every day: I am one of the billions dragging himself across the earth’s surface. One, and no more. This banality justifies any conclusion, any behavior or action: debauchery, chastity, suicide, work, crime, sloth, or rebellion... Whence it follows that each man is right to do what he does.”

Emil M. Cioran Quote: “We should repeat to ourselves, every day: I am one of the billions dragging himself across the earth’s surface. One, and no more. This banality justifies any conclusion, any behavior or action: debauchery, chastity, suicide, work, crime, sloth, or rebellion... Whence it follows that each man is right to do what he does.”

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17. “There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”

18. “Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.”

19. “The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.”

20. “Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”

21. “The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.”

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24. “Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.”

25. “If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.”

26. “A stone is frozen music.”

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28. “Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers, and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.”

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31. “But respect yourself most of all.”

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34. “Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.”

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