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.

Epictetus

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My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

Lo que no nos mata nos hace más fuertes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In every generation one must look upon himself as if he personally had gone out of Egypt.

If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

Henry David Thoreau

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