βNothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.β
Ralph Waldo Emerson
βSelf-Relianceβ (1841)
βThat is the sort of person youβll find I am: trustworthy, honourable, noble and poised. Not, to be sure, immune to death, age or disease, like God, but still prepared to die and face illness with a godlike dignity.β
Epictetus
[tr. Robert Dobbin]
βWhy do I strive, why do I toil in this narrow, confined frame, when life, all life with all its joys, is open to me?β
Tolstoy
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tr. Maude
β[O]ne must try to make oneβs life as pleasant as possible. Iβm alive; that is not my fault, so I must live out my life as best I can, without hurting others.β
Tolstoy
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tr. Maude