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Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?
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Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?
Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.
For death also is one piece of the business of life, and, here as elsewhere, it is enough to do well what comes to our hand.
Love the art which you have learned, humble though it be, and in it find your recreation.
Others, who love the art that they have made their own, exhaust themselves with labouring at it unwashed and unfed.
In rest you go beyond these limits, and beyond what is enough; but in action you do not fill the measure, and remain well within your powers.
Is pleasure, then, the object of your being, and not action, and the exercise of your powers?
No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.
the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress
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