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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
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In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will think it is of no concern to us.
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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
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At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
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We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment of fear itself only should we be afraid.
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If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.
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If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.
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Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.
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What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
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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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