When I was ten I was a hip-hop a shorty wop known for rockin' microphones and twistin' of a forty top - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist an imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Stoicism, seen this way, becomes pure robustness — for the attainment of a state of immunity from one’s external circumstances, good or bad, and an absence of fragility to decisions made by fate, is robustness. Random events won’t affect us either way (we are too strong to lose, and not greedy to enjoy the upside), so we stay in the middle column of the Triad.