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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
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Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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There is a stream of things entering into being, and time is a raging torment; for no sooner does each thing enter our sight than it has been swept away, and another is passing in it's place, and that too will be swept away.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
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Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.
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Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
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Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
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It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.
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The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
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You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
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