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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.
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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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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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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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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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First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
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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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It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
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Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
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Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
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If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
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