diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml index 7592223..1d7f357 100644 --- a/Cargo.toml +++ b/Cargo.toml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ [package] name = "stoic-quotes" -version = "0.2.4" +version = "0.3.0" edition = "2021" authors = ["Jose Storopoli "] description = "Stoic quotes API backend" diff --git a/data/quotes.json b/data/quotes.json index a65932d..72506c7 100644 --- a/data/quotes.json +++ b/data/quotes.json @@ -1,962 +1,966 @@ [ - { - "text": "The best answer to anger is silence.", - "author": "Marcus Aurelius" - }, - { - "text": "The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.", - "author": "Marcus Aurelius" - }, - { - "text": "How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.", - "author": "Marcus Aurelius" - }, - { - "text": "You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.", - "author": "Marcus Aurelius" - }, - { - "text": "The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.", - "author": "Marcus Aurelius" - }, - { - "text": "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.", - "author": "Marcus Aurelius" - }, - { - "text": "Confine yourself to the present.", - "author": "Marcus Aurelius" - }, - { - "text": "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.", - "author": "Marcus Aurelius" - }, - { - "text": "You can commit injustice by doing nothing.", - "author": "Marcus Aurelius" - }, - { - "text": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. 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"author": "Marcus Aurelius" - }, - { - "text": "Consider at what price you sell your integrity, but please, for God’s sake, don’t sell it cheap.", - "author": "Marcus Aurelius" - }, - { - "text": "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.", - "author": "Seneca" - }, - { - "text": "Ignorance is the cause of fear.", - "author": "Seneca" - }, - { - "text": "While we wait for life, life passes.", - "author": "Seneca" - }, - { - "text": "Life is long, if you know how to use it.", - "author": "Seneca" - }, - { - "text": "Hurry up and live.", - "author": "Seneca" - }, - { - "text": "Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.", - "author": "Seneca" - }, - { - "text": "Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool.", - "author": "Seneca" - }, - { - "text": "Only time can heal what reason cannot.", - "author": "Seneca" - }, - { - "text": "While we are postponing, life speeds by.", - "author": "Seneca" - }, - { - "text": "Life, if well lived, is long enough.", - "author": "Seneca" - 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