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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

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

“Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Life is slavery if the courage to die is absent.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby