The struggle is great, the task divine — to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility.

Epictetus

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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest, as the means that accommodates human life with a soft and easy tranquility, and gives us a pure and pleasant taste of living, without which all other pleasure would be extinct.

Michel de Montaigne

He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears.

By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful — more free of interruptions — than your own soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

Marcus Aurelius

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.

The Stoic Emperor

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

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