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#1

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
― Epictetus

tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth

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#2

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle

tags: patience

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#3

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: friendship

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#4

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

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#5

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

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#6

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: abe, enemies, enemy, friend, friends, friendship, life, lincoln

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#7

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
― Olin Miller

tags: confidence, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, others, think, worry

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#8

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

tags: wisdom

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#9

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

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#10

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

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#11

“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.

Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: business, charity

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#12

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: perseverance, suicide, survival

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#13

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: adversity, challenges, character, inspirational

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#14

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

tags: goals

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#15

“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

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#16

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge

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#17

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: anger

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#18

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

tags: history, humility, philosophy

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#19

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ”
― Epictetus

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#20

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop

tags: compassion, inspirational, kindness

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#21

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

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#22

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
― Socrates

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#23

“Before you know it, if you're not careful, you can get to feeling sorry for everybody and there's nobody left to hate.”
― William Wharton, Birdy

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#24

“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
― Sophocles

tags: pain

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#25

“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: adventure, charles-dickens, drama, greatest-author, inspiring-quotes

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#26

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom

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#27

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#28

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: literature

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#29

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Epicurus

tags: desire, gratitude, hope

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#30

“First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.”
― Epictetus

tags: motivational

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