The purpose of knowledge is action. - Ryan Holiday

If you let anger into your life, once you let it motivate or animate you, it’s very hard to get rid of. It’s hard to find a substitute that measures up. It’s hard to let it go.

We are a product of our teachers and our mentors. There would be no Plato without Socrates. There would be no Aristotle without Plato. There would be no Marcus Aurelius without Rusticus or Epictetus or Antoninus.

Success breeds softness.

It also breeds fear: We become addicted to our creature comforts. And then we become afraid of losing them.