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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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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I do not think, therefore I am a moustache”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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  • #3
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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  • #5
    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
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  • #5
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: fate, love, people
    1865 likes

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  • #7
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: corpse, incarnation, mind-over-body, soul
    548 likes

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  • #7
    Marcus Aurelius
    “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
    5977 likes

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  • #7
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars
    5323 likes

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  • #8
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: integrity, morality
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  • #9
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge
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  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: death, fear, inspirational
    2024 likes

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  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: equanimity, future, inspirational, reason, stoic, stoicism, worry
    1755 likes

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  • #12
    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
    1801 likes

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  • #13
    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: philosophers, philosophy
    1278 likes

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  • #15
    Epictetus
    “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
    ― Epictetus
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  • #16
    Seneca
    “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: attitude, gratitude, happiness, inspirational-quotes, satisfaction
    2219 likes

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  • #17
    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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  • #18
    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
    1149 likes

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  • #19
    Seneca
    “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
    767 likes

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  • #20
    Seneca
    “What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: life-philosophy
    483 likes

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  • #21
    William Shakespeare
    “There is a world elsewhere.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
    65 likes



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