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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
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Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But remember that they have their own distinct character, which is quite a separate matter from how we happen to regard them.
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Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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You lose only the things you have
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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
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Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
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Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
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Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.
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