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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” Socrates

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” Seneca

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” Plutarch

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” Epicurus

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” Pericles

“Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.” Heraclitus

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” Epictetus

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” Aristotle