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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

- Seneca

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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

- Epictetus

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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

- Seneca

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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

- Seneca

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No great thing is created suddenly.

- Epictetus

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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

- Epictetus

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You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

- Marcus Aurelius

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29.03.2025 02:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

- Epictetus

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Our life is what our thoughts make it.

- Marcus Aurelius

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No man is free who is not master of himself.

- Epictetus

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

- Epictetus

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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

- Seneca

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

- Seneca

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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

- Marcus Aurelius

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27.03.2025 08:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

- Epictetus

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He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.

- Seneca

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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

- Epictetus

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

- Seneca

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

- Epictetus

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

- Epictetus

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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

- Marcus Aurelius

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25.03.2025 14:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus

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25.03.2025 08:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

- Marcus Aurelius

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Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

- Seneca

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24.03.2025 20:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Confine yourself to the present.

- Marcus Aurelius

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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

- Marcus Aurelius

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24.03.2025 08:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

- Seneca

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24.03.2025 02:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

- Seneca

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22.03.2025 08:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

- Epictetus

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22.03.2025 02:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do every act of your life as though it were the last act of your life.

- Marcus Aurelius

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