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“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

“Though I’ve belted you and flayed you,
By the livin’ Gawd that made you,
You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!”
― Rudyard Kipling, Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems

“Only the educated are free.”
― Epictetus

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
― Seneca

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

“O, let me kiss that hand!

KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
― Victor Hugo

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“The knowledge of what is mine and what is not mine, what I can and cannot do. I must die. But must I die bawling? I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.”
― Plato, Apology

“From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Epictetus

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
― Epictetus

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

“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse”
― Epictetus

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
― Epictetus