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Marcus Aurelius
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are
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Victor Hugo
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow
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Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness
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Ralph Emerson
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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