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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.
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When our friends are present we ought to treat them well and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
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Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.
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There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.
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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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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
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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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Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
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Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
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When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
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Seek not the good in external thingsseek it in yourselves.
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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.
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