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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
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Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror but it is not accomplished without sweat.
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Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
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Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed evils avoided powers daily exercised careful resolutions unerring decisions.
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What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else
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If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.
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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
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When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
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If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
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A thing either is what it appears to be or it is not, but yet appears to be or it is, but does not appear to be or it is not, and does not appear to be.
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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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As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.
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Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking of running, by running.
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O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?
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