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Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
The tranquillity that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
If you seek tranquility, do less. Or do what’s essential – what the logos of a social being requires, and in the requisite way. Which brings a double satisfaction: to do less, better. Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Today I have got out of all trouble, or rather I have cast out all trouble, for it was not outside, but within and in my opinions.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people – unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You’ll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what the’re saying, and what they’re thinking, and what they’re up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
In well-functioning teams, each individual has high accountability for their part.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
You’re never going to be the best in the world at anything unless it’s something that you just absolutely love to do.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
Meetings should really be phone calls, phone call should be emails, and phone calls should just be texts.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
Surround yourself with the best people possible. If there’s someone greater out there to work with, go work with them.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
Generally, most people will make the mistake of paying too much attention to the competition and being too much like the competition and not being authentic enough.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.”
Quote by -Mark Twain
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
Quote by -Mark Twain
“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
Quote by -Mark Twain
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
Quote by -Plato
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
Quote by -Plato
“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
Quote by -Plato
“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”
Quote by -Plato
“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ”
Quote by -Plato
“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
Quote by -Plato
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
Quote by -Plato
“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
Quote by -Plato
“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.”
Quote by -Plato
“And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.”
Quote by -Plato
“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”
Quote by -Plato
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.”
Quote by -Plato
“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”
Quote by -Plato
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”
Quote by -Plato
“Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.”
Quote by -Plato
“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
Quote by -Plato
“And I understood then that I was a fool when I told you I would take my turn in singing the honours of Love, and admitted I was terribly clever in love affairs, whereas it seems I really had no idea how a eulogy ought to be made. For I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.”
Quote by -Plato
“…it’s better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.”
Quote by -Plato
“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.”
Quote by -Plato
“But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.”
Quote by -Plato