Matsuo Basho
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration...We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed...The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy...I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul...Nothing I do is done by popular demand...I'd sometimes go to Paris by myself...