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Epictetus
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Epictetus

Thomas Bernhard
“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
Thomas Bernhard, Correction

Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

Thomas Bernhard
“Lawyers make nothing but confusion... A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.”
Thomas Bernhard

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