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“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“My art and profession is to live.”
― Montaigne

“Il n'est pas de chagrin qu'un livre ne puisse consoler.”
― Michel de Montaigne

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

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
― Epictetus

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

“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations