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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Golden Asse

by Apuleius

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Derek’s Quotes

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism

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“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
― Marcus Aurelius

tags: be-good, goodness, morality

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“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

tags: life, sanity

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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength

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“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
― Emma Lazarus

tags: quote-on-the-statue-of-liberty, statue-of-liberty

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