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The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.
Seneca, Natural Questions (via philosophybits)
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“Men, be kind to your fellow-men; this is your first duty, kind to every age and station, kind to all that is not foreign to humanity. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
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“We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we’re afraid to let them see it in us.”
— Brené Brown
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“How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?”
— John Locke (via amargedom)
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