If you want to be a man of leisure, do not be a man of business. For if you are a man of business, you must be a man of trouble.
Stoic philosopher, former slave
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"If you are going to write, be content to be unlearned. If you are going to wrestle, be content to be beaten. For if you are not content with these things, you will not write, nor will you wrestle."
Shocking"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
Strange & Unusual"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."
Shocking"If a man is unhappy, this must be due to his own fault, that he does not understand that it is in his power to be happy."
Strange & Unusual"Only the educated are free."
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