“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
- H.L. Mencken
Leading and Following
elena de soto
“[One of the troubles that beset us as humans] is the way our lives are guided by others’ example. In this manner, we lust after what isn’t ours and what we don’t actually need. We think we must do the things that everyone else is doing, have the things everyone else has, simply because they are doing them and have them. We are attracted by wealth, pleasures and good looks, and we are repelled by exertion, death, pain, and disgrace. We would do better to not crave the former, not be afraid of the latter.”