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"If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other."
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"The greatest treasures are books."
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"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."
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"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."
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"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."
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"The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing "alive and kicking" dreams."
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"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."
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"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Tell the others right away, 'No, I don't want to watch TV! I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!"
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"It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God's power and might in orderto have prosperity."
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"Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on."
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"To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift."
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"I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?"
Mortality
"Ruin and recovery are both from within."
Healing
"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."
Wisdom
"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
Courage
"Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else."
Purpose
"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery."
Philosophy
"You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is."
Philosophy
"You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself."
Success
"We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things."
Philosophy
"Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower."
Philosophy
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