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Quote of the day 07/11/26

From Denis Diderot: “The first step toward philosophy is incredulity.”

From Oscar Wilde: “To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.”

From Henry David Thoreau: “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”

From Robert Byrne: “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.”

From Oscar Wilde: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

From Salman Rushdie: “The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.”

From James Oppenheim: “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”

From Oscar Wilde: “To define is to limit.”

From Mark Twain: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”