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Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

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If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.
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Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre still below your quota. You dont love yourself enough. Or youd love your nature too and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. They even forget to wash and eat.
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Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.
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Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.
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The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.
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Truth and ceremony are two things.
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Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.
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... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.
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One universe made up all that is and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
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Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
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The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
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