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“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.”
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“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”
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“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
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