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Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.
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We are born for cooperation
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He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
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Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.
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Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.
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It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .
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What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.
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Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'
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Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?
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The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
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In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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All things are in the act of change thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.
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The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.
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Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
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He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
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If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?
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