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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.
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Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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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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Seek not good from without seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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