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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
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With ills unending strives the putter off.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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Think of God more often than thou breathest.
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In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taughtbut in life there are many things to draw us aside.
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