First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Discourses, Book III, §23 (108 CE)
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, ch. 34 (1929)
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.
Discourses, Book I, §18 (108 CE)