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  • #1
    Meister Eckhart
    “The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.”
    Meister Eckhart

  • #2
    Robin Hobb
    “I never confuse the cost of something with its value”
    Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship

  • #3
    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #4
    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

  • #5
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
    Jean Paul Sartre

  • #6
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #7
    Abraham Lincoln
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #8
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #9
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #10
    Abraham Lincoln
    “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #12
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #13
    Marcus Aurelius
    “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

  • #14
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #15
    Marcus Aurelius
    “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

  • #16
    Epictetus
    “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

  • #17
    Epictetus
    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
    Epictetus

  • #18
    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    Epictetus

  • #19
    Epictetus
    “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
    Epictetus

  • #20
    Epictetus
    “Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;
    he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
    Epictetus

  • #21
    Epictetus
    “Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
    Epictetus

  • #22
    Epictetus
    “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
    Epictetus

  • #23
    Epictetus
    “I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.”
    Epictetus

  • #24
    Epictetus
    “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
    Epictetus

  • #25
    Epictetus
    “Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness”
    Epictetus

  • #26
    Epictetus
    “A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single
    hope”
    Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

  • #27
    Epictetus
    “Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent. ”
    Epictetus

  • #28
    Epictetus
    “You become what you give your attention to.”
    Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

  • #29
    Epictetus
    “An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.”
    Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

  • #30
    Epictetus
    “Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
    Epictetus, The Discourses



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