November 13

In fact, the application of the axiom, ‘Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you,’ an axiom a hundred times more useful in society nowadays than that of the Greeks’, ‘Know thyself,’ a knowledge for which, in our days, we have substituted the less difficult and more advantageous science of knowing others.
- Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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