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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.”
― Ignatius of Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises

“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

“Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

“Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

“If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

“Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings