The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich..

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud..

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own..

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking..

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough..

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura ..

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules..

Only the autodidacts are free..

They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in….

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary..

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion..

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide..

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, po….

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits..

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee..

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in..

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love..

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you..

An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligen….

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom..