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“I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”
― Aristotle

tags: law, morality, philosophy, secular-ethics, secular-morality

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“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: carpe-diem, happiness, live-in-the-moment, self-determination

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“He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of the world, expecting everything to be different, and never quite got over the fact it felt the same.”
― Jon Courtenay Grimwood, End of the World Blues

tags: expats

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“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.”
― Anais Nin, Henry & June

tags: happiness

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