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  1. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson

    #Stoic #Stoicism #RalphWaldoEmerson

  2. "I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech." "The American Scholar"

    #RalphWaldoEmerson meet #SneakerCon