The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.
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If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.Epictetus
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher 'What sinews are those' A will undisappointed evils avoided powers daily exercised careful resolutions unerring decisions.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
Epictetus
Ruin and recovery are alike from within.
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