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“Truth is not virtue, but the lack of vices. The most common and the most widely used deceit is the wish to deceive not other people, but yourself. And this kind of life is the most harmful.” —Tolstoy

Do you think that anybody can damage your soul? Then why are you so embarrassed? I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live. —EPICTETUS

Nothing will bring you peace except yourself.
—RALPH WALDO EMERSON

A wise man always finds some support for himself in everything, because his gift is in obtaining goodness from everything. —JOHN RUSKIN

You should live your life as if you are ready to say good-bye to it at any moment, as if the time left you is some pleasant surprise. —MARCUS AURELIUS

A person who sails far from the shore can see some shore-lines or cliffs. But when sailors go really far away from the shore, they can be guided only by the stars high up in the sky, and the compass which indicates their direction, and both these things are given to us.

No matter how low a person may fall, he will always be able to see that perfection toward which he should move. —Tolstoy