Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
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Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habitEpictetus
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us or How came you by that brow of scorn But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.
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If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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If you would be a reader, read if a writer, write.
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