'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.'

STOICISM

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

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“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”

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

'I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.'

STOICISM

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

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'To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.'

“Once you label me you negate me.”

If your goal is to fit in, you can forget about becoming someone you've never been.

'Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)'

'Fate shuffles the cards and we play.'

'Nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.'

“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”

“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.”

“My standpoint is armed neutrality.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

'The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today.'

Masculine Self Growth is incomplete without Stoicism

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“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”

“We learn not in the school, but in life.”