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No great thing is created suddenly.
Epictetus
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Let silence be your general rule or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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