Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

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"Ne traversez pas une rivière si elle a en moyenne quatre pieds de profondeur"

Translations

“A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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