Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Meditations, Book X, §16 (180 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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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Meditations, Book V, §20 (180 CE)
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.
Meditations, Book VI, §39 (180 CE)
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Meditations, Book V, §16 (180 CE)
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Meditations, Book VII, §47 (180 CE)
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
Meditations, Book XII, §17 (180 CE)
How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbour says.
Meditations, Book IV, §18 (180 CE)