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“A free person is unable to acquire great wealth, because that is not easily achieved without enslavement to the masses or to the powers that be. Instead, he already has everything he needs, and in abundance.”

— Epicurus, Vatican Sayings

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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but because we do not dare, things are difficult.”

— Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius

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Dark Academia Reading Material

You can only read The Secret History so many times. Sorry, Donna.

-Poetry by Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Shakespeare

-Shakespeare’s tragedies

-The Illiad

-The Oddessy

-Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, etc.

-About Diogenes the Cynic. Diogenes will provide a laugh. If you’re anti-laughing about Ancient Greek Philosophers, not the reading for you.

-Your own poetry

-Your own stories

-Autobiographies on famous, dead people

-Philosophy in general

-Other poets, let’s be honest, we’re all sad

-Dante

-Old satire

-Canterbury Tales

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“My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

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“Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.”

- Israelmore Ayivor