To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.

Seneca

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Short-term thinking makes people desperate, ungenerous, impulsive. Long-term thinking makes people calm, gracious, controlled. The mighty pyramids and cathedrals were built by civilizations with a long time horizon, so it is with the life of a great man.

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Do not waste your life taking revenge on the shadows of those you cannot forget or forgive. Accept. Endure.

The Stoic Emperor

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions , not outside.

Marcus Aurelius

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

El dolor caliente de hoy es la fría sabiduría de mañana…

El emperador Estoico

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