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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.
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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
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Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.
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You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be or they neither are, nor appear to be or they are, and do not appear to be or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
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I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.
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It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
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It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
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What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
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Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
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There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
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It is your own convictions which compels you that is, choice compels choice.
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Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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