On 10/10/26
Daily Letter
Give · Inspiration & Quotes
the main thing that reading gives us (apart from pleasure and some wisdom) is an ability not to be subject only to ‘present-ism'...someone has been here before, felt what we have felt and managed to navigate this mysterious thing called life.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to focus
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie.
Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in.
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
Life is short, craft is long, opportunity fleeting, experimentations perilous, judgment difficult.
People & Society
Be wary of people that talk about their life as if it's just a series of events that happened to them and not a series of decisions
Money, Work & Power
Does no one understand the highest probability here is that the diesel never comes near the United States?
We have limited refining capacity. We already export 10x what we import.
Most likely scenario is Russia ships it to other countries helping bring down global price
Misc
You always think,
'This is the one I won't survive."
And yet—you do. That's life.
Goodness, unless combined with imagination, runs the risk of being mere exhibitionism
In court of Justice, both parties know the truth, it is the judge, who is on trial