As you may already know, social media is a cesspool of garbage. Ocassionally, you find some common sense quotes from contemporary and ancient authors such as these listed below. Enjoy !
What is it that escapes the observation of poets?
What is that act which women are incapable of doing?
What is that which a drunkard will not babble?
What is that which a crow will not eat?
Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man. . . .
Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations
they are the device of another to get you into his power. . . .
Baltasar Gracian)
Once you step into a fight that is not of your own choosing, you lose all initiative.
The combatants’ interests become your interests; you become their tool.
Learn to control yourself, to restrain your natural tendency to take sides and join the fight.
Most people operate in a whirlpool of emotions, constantly reacting, churning up squabbles and conflicts.
Your self-control and autonomy will only bother and infuriate them.
Slowness to pick up your weapons can be a weapon itself, especially if you let other people exhaust themselves fighting, then take advantage of their exhaustion.
R. Greene
