Not Nattering III

Given recent circumstances, I have taken to my Epictetus.  Below are some of the maxims which have been resonating with me lately.  Enjoy.

Thank you Wikipedia

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."
"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death." 
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
"You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself."
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."
"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." 

Apologies for the delay in posting. 

BTG

Not Nattering II

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"We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome."

"But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it."

"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."

Thucydides, Peloponnesian War II, 40

Wise words of motivation of assorted variety offered in the hope to cause fewer words written or said without prior profound cerebration.

BTG

Not Nattering

Directly in the face of today's ubiquitous mindless blather and other contemptuously supercilious twaddle, let's take some time to remember the importance with which one used to address their thoughts. People paid heed to the use of their words and we should live in their likeness. When most of us are intellectually satisfied by mere newsprint and eloquent online periodicals, I will strive to provide a lagniappe of historical quotes. I have started here with the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, as his prose symbolize a brass ring of meaning, eloquence and incisiveness.

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"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. And that you may be always doing good, my dear, is the ardent prayer of yours affectionately." Thomas Jefferson, letter to Martha Jefferson, May 5, 1787

I will endeavor to be less idle and more frequent with my posts.

BTG