End-Notes

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.”

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— Epictetus, Enchiridion

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

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— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 39

“I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

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— Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book I, Chapter 1

“Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.”

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— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 1

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

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— Epictetus, Enchiridion, §1

“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions.”

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— Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 2

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.”

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— Bhagavad Gita, 2.47

“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction.”

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— José Rizal, Noli Me Tangere, Chapter 1

“his house, like his country, shut its doors against nothing except commerce and all new or bold ideas.”

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— José Rizal, Noli Me Tangere

“The people are beginning to open their eyes, and they are demanding their rights.”

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— José Rizal, Mi Último Adiós (English translation)

“How beautiful it is to fall and give you wings, To die so you may live, to die beneath your sky, And in your enchanted earth to sleep eternity.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book V.1

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for?”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book III.7

“Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, lose your self-respect, hate any man, suspect, curse, act the hypocrite, or desire anything that needs walls or curtains.”

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— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

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— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.”

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— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

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— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.”

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— Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chapter 10

“She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.”

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— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part III, Chapter 5

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

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— Plato, Apology, 21d (Jowett translation)

“I neither know nor think that I know.”

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— Michel de Montaigne, Essays

“There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”

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— Michel de Montaigne, Essays

“He who has not flattered fortune, has never been seriously offended by her.”

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— William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

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— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 48 (Mitchell translation)

“In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.”

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— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“When someone seeks, then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book IV (Hays translation)

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

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— Confucius, The Analects

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

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— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign tongue.”

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— Friedrich Nietzsche, late notebooks, 1886–87 (Nachlass; compiled posthumously as Will to Power §481)

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

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— The Bhagavad Gita, 2.47 (Edwin Arnold translation)

“Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.”

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— Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

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— St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul, opening poem

“On a dark night, kindled in love with yearnings — oh, happy chance! — I went forth without being observed.”

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— Teresa of Ávila, Interior Castle

“Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things.”

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— Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.”

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— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.”

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— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

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— Epictetus, Enchiridion, §1

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

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— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II.1

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

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— Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain.”

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— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

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— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.”

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— George Eliot, Middlemarch

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

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— Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 23

“Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.”

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— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, Letter 101

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

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— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

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— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 23

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

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— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?”

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— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II.1

“States of character arise out of like activities.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book X.16

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part I, Chapter 1

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

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— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“It is better to be impetuous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to dominate her you must beat and batter her.”

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— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (Mitchell translation)

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

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— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II.1

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

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— Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”

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— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”

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— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

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— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand out of the mountain of happiness he had expected.”

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— Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book III.7

“Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, lose your self-respect, hate any man, suspect, curse, act the hypocrite.”

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— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 6

“He had an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.”

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1 (Nick's father to Nick)

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1

“"He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward, and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock…”

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 4 (Gatsby to Nick)

“In just two minutes it'll be five years since I last saw you.”

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7 (Gatsby to Nick, of Daisy)

“Her voice is full of money.”

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 2

“This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens.”

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 9

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 8 (Gatsby to Nick, the night before he is killed)

“I waited, and about four o'clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light.”

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— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 9

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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— Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 10

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public.”

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— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 1, Chapter 1

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

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— Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, Book I, Chapter 1

“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”

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— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, ‘Conclusion’

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

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— Epictetus, Enchiridion

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

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— The Dhammapada

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”

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— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (Mitchell translation)

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

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— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 12

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”

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— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life, Ch. 3

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

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— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”

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— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.”

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— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, Chapter 117

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”

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— St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul, Book II, ch. 9

“Although this night brings darkness to the spirit, it does so only to give it light in everything.”

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— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part III, Chapter 5

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

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— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

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— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book IV.7

“Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

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— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

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— Epictetus, Enchiridion

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

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— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 48 (Mitchell translation)

“In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.”

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— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, Letter 2

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

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— Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, Book IV

“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”

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— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I.10

“No function of man has so much permanence as virtuous activities; these are thought to be more durable even than knowledge of the sciences.”

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— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part III, Chapter 5

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

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— Ecclesiastes 3:1

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”

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— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI: ‘The Russian Monk’

“Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.”

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— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, Chapter 8

“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew.”

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— George Eliot, Middlemarch, Finale

“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

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— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

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— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 27

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

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— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”

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— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

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— Ecclesiastes 1:9

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”

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— Book of Job 1:21

“The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”

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— Book of Job 2:10

“Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?”

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— Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, Book III

“True happiness cannot be found in those things which can be taken away.”

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— John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, Part I, Ch. 1

“I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man.”

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, Part I, Ch. 1

“It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect.”

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— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II.1

“We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book III.7

“Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, lose your self-respect, hate any man, suspect, curse, act the hypocrite, or desire anything that needs walls or curtains.”

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— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 27

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

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— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

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— Epictetus, Enchiridion

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

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— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, Letter 2

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

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— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

“Facts are the enemy of truth.”

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— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”

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— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

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— Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

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— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 5

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”

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— Epictetus, Enchiridion, §5

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.”

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— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book V.20 (Casaubon translation)

“What before was the impediment, is now the principal object of her working; and that which before was in her way, is now her readiest way.”

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— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The horror! The horror!”

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— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 39

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”

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— Plato, Republic, Book I

“Is the physician, taken in that strict sense of which you are speaking, a healer of the sick or a maker of money?”

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— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

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— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II.1

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

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— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”

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— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Simplify, simplify.”

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The important thing is to stop lying to yourself. A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book V.1

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work—as a human being.”

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— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

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— Epictetus, Enchiridion

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

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— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

“The journey is better than the inn.”

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— Homer, The Odyssey, Book 1

“Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted.”

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— Homer, The Odyssey, Book 11 (Achilles to Odysseus)

“I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead.”

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— Homer, The Odyssey, Book 5 (Odysseus to Calypso)

“"Goddess, do not be angry with me about this. I am quite aware that my wife Penelope is nothing like so tall or so beautiful as yourself. She is only a woman, whereas you are an immortal. Nevertheless, I want to get home, and can think of nothing else. If some god wrecks me when…”

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— Homer, The Odyssey, Book 17

“He is recognised by the dog Argos. The hound lay there full of vermin, and as he became aware that Odysseus was drawing near, he wagged his tail and dropped both his ears, but he could no longer get up to come to his master.”

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— Homer, The Odyssey, Book 23 (Odysseus to Penelope)

“"There was a young olive growing within the precincts of the house, in full vigour, and about as thick as a bearing-post. I built my room round this with strong walls of stone and a roof to cover them, and I made the doors strong and well-fitting. Then I cut off the top boughs o…”

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— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part 1

“We live as we dream—alone.”

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— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 23

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII.47 (paraphrase of Casaubon)

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

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— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

“In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost.”

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— Matthew 7:7

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

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— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 8

“The highest excellence is like that of water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place which all men dislike.”

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— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 78

“There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it.”

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— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”

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— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.”

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— popularly attributed to Socrates (paraphrase of the maieutic method, cf. Plato, Theaetetus 150b)

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”

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— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, Chapter 12 (‘Govinda’)

“I can love a stone, Govinda, and also a tree or a piece of bark. These are things, and things can be loved. But words I cannot love.”

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— Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part I, Section I

“As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book X.16

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

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— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, Letter 7

“Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.”

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— Confucius, The Analects

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

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— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, ‘Conclusion’

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

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— The Bhagavad Gita, 3.35

“It is better to perform one's own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another.”

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— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II.9

“Anyone can get angry — that is easy. But to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way — that is not for every one, nor is it easy.”

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— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 23

“Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature.”

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— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, Chapter 9 (‘The Ferryman’)

“The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it.”

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— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (popularly attributed; closest canonical analog is Book V.1)

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

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— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

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