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“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
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“It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants, but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.”
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“that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
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