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Define yourself. Or someone else will do it for you. And worse, you might end up listening. Ryan Holiday

If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. Fracois de la Rochefoucauld

I had a period, too, when I leaned on proverbs, and tried to pass the blame back on myself, with some justification. Now I would try to be philosophical by saying to myself, "Well, pal, if you fool around with the bull, you have to expect the horn." But, when you are gored, there is not much comfort in proverbs. Norman Maclean, //A River Runs Through It//, p. 157

Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

...for it is a common failing of men not to take account of tempests during fair weather. Niccolo Machiavelli, //The Prince//, p. 90

No one should ever allow himself to fall down in the belief that someone else will lift him to his feet, because it will not happen; or if it does happen, it will not prove to his advantage. Niccolo Machiavelli, //The Prince//, p. 91

You'll say it doesn't make sense? Of course it doesn't. That's why it works. Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? Said by Ellsworth Toohey, Ayn Rand, //The Fountainhead//, p. 346

A man without purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose - a productive purpose. Ayn Rand

The soul, Peter, is that which cannot be ruled. It must be broken. Drive a wedge in, get your fingers on it - and the man is yours. You won't need a whip - he'll bring it to you and ask to be whipped. Said by Ellsworth Toohey, Ayn Rand, //The Fountainhead//, p. 636

The best revenge is to not be like that. Heraclitus

We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. Marcus Aurelius, //The Meditations//, p. 17

The world is maintained by change. Marcus Aurelius, //The Meditations//, p. 18

But death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble or shameful - and hence neither good nor bad. Marcus Aurelius, //The Meditations//, p. 20

Even if you're going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you're living now, or live another one than the one you're losing. Marcus Aurelius, //The Meditations//, p. 21

...keep the spirit inside you undamaged, as if you might have to give it back at any moment... Marcus Aurelius, //The Meditations//, p. 33