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Opening Up by Writing It Down: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain

by James W. Pennebaker

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The Discourses

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Further Along The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck

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The journey of life is not paved in Tarmac; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

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On the Shortness of Life: A New Translation: De Brevitate Vitae: A New Translation

by Seneca

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“Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“No man is at the mercy of affairs. He gets entangled in them of his own accord, and then flatters himself that being busy is a proof of happiness.”
― Seneca, Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes

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“I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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“As Shakespeare teaches us, all heroes have flaws, some tragic, some conquered, and those we cast as villains can be complex. Even the best people, he wrote, are “molded out of faults.”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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“Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever will be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results. Niccolò Machiavelli1”
― William Ophuls, Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail

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