"The obstacle is the way. What stands in the way becomes the way."

Marcus Aurelius

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

Seneca

"You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

Marcus Aurelius

"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?"

— Epictetus

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

Seneca

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

Marcus Aurelius

"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."

— Epictetus

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

Marcus Aurelius

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