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"Your will must be tenacious, not your judgement."

(Baltasar Gracián)
"If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall — if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then shall the good life be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back."

(Marcus Aurelius)

"The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how to behave when we don’t know what to do."

(John Holt)
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