In a word, neither death, nor ...

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.