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“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
― Edmund Burke

“In the ashes all men are levelled.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“The more the mind takes in the more it expands.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“The poor lack much, the greedy everything.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“All vices are at odds with nature, all abandon the proper order of things.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Part of my joy in learning is that it puts me in a position to teach; nothing, however outstanding and however helpful, will ever give me any pleasure if the knowledge is to be for my benefit alone.”
― Séneca., Letters from a Stoic

“There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Soli Deo Gloria!—To God alone be the glory!”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“YOU ask me to say what you should consider it particularly important to avoid. My answer is this: a mass crowd.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“To come back to the question, the wise man, self-sufficient as he is, still desires to have a friend if only for the purpose of practising friendship and ensuring that those talents are not idle.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Anyone thinking of his own interests and seeking out friendship with this in view is making a great mistake.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“To procure friendship only for better and not for worse is to rob it of all its dignity.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“God is faithful, and  xhe will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires. THE PRINCE, Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Anne could believe, with Lady Russell, that a more equal match might have greatly improved him; and that a woman of real understanding might have given more consequence to his character, and more usefulness, rationality, and elegance to his habits and pursuits.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Get behind me, Satan! For you  bare not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, 17 SUCCESS advertisement and manufacture of public opinion; and excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Success

“Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful. It by no means consists 22 SUCCESS in rushing prematurely to a showy feat that shall catch the eye and satisfy spectators. It is enough if you work in the right direction.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Success

“Character and wit have their own magnetism. Send a deep man into any town, and he will find another deep man there, unknown hitherto to his neighbors. That is the great happiness of life, — to add to our high acquaintances.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Success

“In our affluent Western culture, growing up for many of us is weirdly optional. Historically, men have had no choice but to grow up. They had to work to eat. They had to defend themselves, their families, and their communities. But most of us here and now can choose the life of an entertainment consumer, just moving from one experience to the next.”
― Brant Hansen, The Men We Need: God’s Purpose for the Manly Man, the Avid Indoorsman, or Any Man Willing to Show Up

“Our default setting is to stay comfortable, to stay clean from the mess. That means sticking to our own areas of expertise and excusing ourselves from the parts of life that make us say, “I have no idea what I’m doing.” But that’s not what men are called to do. We’re called to take part in God’s “family business” of entering into chaos and bringing order.”
― Brant Hansen, The Men We Need: God’s Purpose for the Manly Man, the Avid Indoorsman, or Any Man Willing to Show Up