Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

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• Epictetus:

  If you wish to be a writer, write.

• Epictetus:

  Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are

• Epictetus:

  It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

• Epictetus:

  Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive

• Epictetus:

  The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation

• Epictetus:

  To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows

• Epictetus:

  Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

• Ernest Hemingway:

  There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior t

• Ernest Hemingway:

  The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be th

• Ernest Hemingway:

  The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.