“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”

“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing.”

“No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.”

“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.”

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“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”

“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”

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“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today.”

“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”