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memento mori.

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“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.” by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.”

- Marcus Aurelius

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“Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it?

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“All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle.”

- Marcus Aurelius

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“Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

- Marcus Aurelius

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“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”

- Marcus Aurelius

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“No great thing is created suddenly.”

- Epictetus

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“Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.”

- Marcus Aurelius

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“Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.”

- Marcus Aurelius

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“Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The piety and devotion to the gods that the majority of people invoke is a lie devised by swindlers and con men and, if you can believe it, by legislators, to keep criminals in line by putting the fear of God into them.”

- Epictetus

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“The gods do not exists, and even if they exist they do not trouble themselves about people, and we have nothing in common with them.

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“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

- Epictetus

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“Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!”

- Epictetus

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“I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”

- Marcus Aurelius

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“Nothing great comes into being all at once, for that is not the case even with a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me now, 'I want a fig,' I'll reply, 'That takes time.”

- Epictetus

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“How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.”

- Marcus Aurelius

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“Anger and the sorrow it produces are far more harmful than the things which make us angry.”

- Marcus Aurelius

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“Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?”

- Epictetus

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“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

- Epictetus

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“Blame and praise have no true effects.”

- Marcus Aurelius