john_cope
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14. Stop drifting. You’re not going to re-read your Brief Comments, your Deeds of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, the commonplace books you saved for your old age. Sprint for the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.
51. Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
56. Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.
71. It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
22a. This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.