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

The Stoic Emperor

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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

The present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

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.

The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all.

Marcus Aurelius

Singlemindedness is all-powerful.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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