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“..If you are troubled by external circumstances, it is not the circumstances that trouble you, but your own perception of them - and they are in your power to change at any time.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“As there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world. Misanthropy arises from too great confidence of inexperience; you trust a man and think him altogether true and good and faithful, and then in a little while he turns out to be false and knavish; and then another and another, and when this has happened several times to a man, especially within the circle of his most trusted friends, as he deems them, and he has often quarreled with them, he at last hates all men, and believes that no one has any good in him at all. ...The reason is that a man, having to deal with other men, has no knowledge of them; for if he had knowledge he would have known the true state of the case, that few are the good and few the evil, and that the great majority are in the interval between them.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“One who daily puts the finishing touches on his life is never in want of time.”
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”
Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens““Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ”
1984 • George Orwell