Even If You Win the Rat Race, You’re Still a Rat – Quote Investigator®
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Even If You Win the Rat Race, You’re Still a Rat – Quote Investigator®
The ability to work hard and long is admirable. But you are a human being, not a human doing. Seneca points out that we’re not animals. “Is it really so pleasant to die in harness?” he asked. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn put it better: “Work is what horses die of. Everybody should know that.”
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner
Richard Dawkins • The Selfish Gene
Some people can work their butts off and never get what they’re aiming for, while others can get it without any effort at all.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Les difficultés financières sont souvent le sort qui échoit aux gens qui travaillent pendant toute leur vie au service de quelqu’un d’autre.