"Money is a good servant but a bad master" Francis Bacon

"There's no friend as loyal as a book" Ernest Hemingway

"One who asks fearfully teaches us to say no" Seneca #Philosophy #Books

"Necessity is usually more powerful then duty" Seneca #Philosophy #Books

"The greatest kind of power is self-control" Seneca #Philosophy #Books

"For every challenge, remember the resources you have within you to cope with it" #Epictetus #Philosophy #Books #Enchiridion #grownostr #MerryChristmas

"It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgment concerning them... So when we are frustrated, angry or unhappy, never hold anyone except ourselves- that is, our judgments- accountable" #Epictetus It does not mean that there are not difficulties in life, it does mean that we are responsible for the way we deal with them. #Philosophy #Books #Enchiridion #grownostr #MerryChristmas

"Why aren't you ashamed that you have made your mind vulnerable to anyone who happens to criticize you, so that it automatically become sconfused and upset?" #Epictetus #Philosophy #Books #Enchiridion #grownostr #MerryChristmas

"If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you already have compromised your integrity" #Epictetus #Philosophy #Books #Enchiridion #grownostr #MerryChristmas

"An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself" #Epictetus #Philosophy #Books #Enchiridion #grownostr

"In the face of the pain there are no heroes" George Orwell #Literature #Books #1984 #Plebchain #grownostr #Bitcoin

"#Power is not a mean; it is an end. One does not establish a #dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is #persecution. The object of torture is #torture. The object of power is power" George Orwell #Literature #Books #1984 #Plebchain #grownostr #Bitcoin

"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it" George Orwell #Literature #Books #1984 #Plebchain #grownostr #Bitcoin

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment" Marcus Aurelius #Philosophy #Books #Stoicism #Plebchain #grownostr

"It is not how the wrong is done that matters, but how it is taken" Seneca #Philosophy #Books #Stoicism #Plebchain #grownostr

"What upsets people is not the things themselves but their judgment about things" Epictetus #Philosophy #Books #Wisdom #Plebchain #nostr

"Another person will not do you harm unless you wish it; you will be harmed at just that time at you which you take yourself to be harmed". Epictetus #Philosophy #Stoicism

"Crimes springs from fixed ideas" Max Stirner #Philosophy #Books #Bitcoin #nostr #plebchain #grownostr

"Whoever will be #free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift into man's lap. What is #freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self". Max Stirner #Philosophy #Books #Bitcoin #nostr #plebchain #grownostr

"The state calls it own violence law, but that of the individual crime" Max Stirner #Philosophy #Books #Bitcoin #nostr #plebchain #grownostr