If anyone tells you that a person speaks ill of you, don’t make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: ‘He does not know my other faults, or he would not have mentioned only these.’
~ Epictetus
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My other faults →
If you do not know →
The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.
~ Carl Jung
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Society does not exist →
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Control →
I learned then that even when I felt powerless to control my job or education — or anything else that seemed out of my hands — I always had control over my own mind and how I treated others. Even when I had nothing else, I could still be kind, just, generous, honest, loving and compassionate.
~ Susan Fowler
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Teach them →
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Always pass on good advice →
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde
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The character of your mind →
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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War is not wicked →
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Excellence is a habit →
We are what we repeatedly do, therefore, excellence is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
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Look at that →
In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
~ Edgar Mitchell
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