Effectiveness begins with elimination. Choose your ignorances as carefully as your interests.

The Stoic Emperor

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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius

Exhaustion is the drug of choice for conscientious anxious people.

The Stoic Emperor

Who is your master? Anyone who has control over things upon which you've set your heart, or over things which you seek to avoid.

Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all, the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

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