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    Yukichi Fukuzawa
    “It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.”
    ― Yukichi Fukuzawa, The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
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    “The hardest choices require the strongest wills.”
    ― Thanos
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    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
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    Seneca
    “All cruelty springs from weakness.”
    ― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
    tags: behavior, character, cruelty, weakness
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    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    ― Seneca
    tags: latin, philosophy, stars
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    Seneca
    “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: common-people, corruption, organized-religion, useful
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    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: adversity, challenges, character, inspirational
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    Seneca
    “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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    Seneca
    “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
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    Seneca
    “Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
    ― Seneca
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    Epictetus
    “Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.”
    ― Epictetus
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    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
    tags: history, humility, philosophy
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    Epictetus
    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth
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    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: philosophers, philosophy
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    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
    tags: happiness, way-to-be
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    Epictetus
    “Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
    ― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
    tags: be-honest, grow, learn-to-think, understand-what-you-read
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    Epictetus
    “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: anxiety, mankind
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    Epictetus
    “First say to yourself what you would be;
    and then do what you have to do.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: motivational
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    René Descartes
    “The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
    ― Rene Descartes
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    René Descartes
    “I think; therefore I am.”
    ― Rene Descartes
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    René Descartes
    “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: literature, reading, words
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    René Descartes
    “Conquer yourself rather than the world.”
    ― René Descartes
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    René Descartes
    “Doubt is the origin of wisdom”
    ― Rene Descartes
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    René Descartes
    “Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”
    ― Rene Descartes
    tags: common-sense, humor, irony
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    René Descartes
    “Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: philosophy, self-determination, self-discipline
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    Virgil
    “Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: aeneid, book-vii, line-312
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    Virgil
    “Fortune sides with him who dares.”
    ― Virgil
    tags: risk, success, wealth
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    Virgil
    “Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
    ― Virgil
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    Virgil
    “Death twitches my ear;
    'Live,' he says...
    'I'm coming.”
    ― Virgil
    tags: carpe-diem, creepy, death, death-and-dying, inspirational, living, philosophical, philosophy, seize-the-day
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