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Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
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Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
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Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
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Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
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I am not eternity, but a man a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.
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If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
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A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.
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What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
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If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.
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If you would be a reader, read if a writer, write.
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By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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