Robert Dobbins

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Bertolt Brecht
“Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”
Bertholt Brecht

Epictetus
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.
From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. That is how Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you, although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates.”
Epictetus (From Manual 51)

“Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.”
Carroll Bryant

Voltaire
“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
Voltaire

“No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.”
Carroll Bryant

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