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“The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.”
Fragment • Epictetus“And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
Great Expectations • Charles Dickens“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”
Discourses • Epictetus