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“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long.”
― Seneca

“For to be afflicted with endless sorrow at the loss of someone very dear is foolish self-indulgence, and to feel none is inhuman callousness.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“I think the pinnacle of misfortune is to be forced by chance to want things one should loathe.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies