43 Brilliant Musings From Nassim Taleb's Facebook Page

• Quite a predicament to be both evil and risk averse
• It is a sad situation to be boring without being virtuous. 
• It takes a lot of skills to be virtuous without being boring. 
• Intelligence without imagination: a deadly combination.
• There is no more unmistakable sign of failure than that of a middle-aged man boasting of his successes in college.The danger of reading financial & other news (or econobullshit) is that things that don't make sense at all start making sense to you after progressive immersion.
• A good man is warm and respectful towards the waiter or people of lower rank.
• Injuries done to us by others tend to be acute; the self-inflicted ones tend to be chronic.
• We often benefit from harm done to us by others; almost never from self-inflicted injuries. 
• A great book eludes summaries. A great aphorism resists expansion. The rest is just communication.
• What counts is not *what* people say, it is *how much* energy they spend saying it. 
• Many want to learn how to memorize things; few seek that rare ability to forget.
• High Modernity: routine in place of physical effort, physical effort in place of mental expenditure, & mental expenditure in place of mental clarity.
• If you have something very important to say, whisper it. 
• The ultimate freedom lies in not having to explain "why" you did something.

- More Here and even more in his book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms