It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today. Man's Search For Meaning
People who are so much at the mercy of their moods should never be given serious responsibilities. Beware of Pity
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. De Beneficiis
Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit. Book V
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