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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
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If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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To expect an impossibility is madness.
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Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.
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How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
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He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end for all things are of one kin and of one form.
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At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that I am rising for the work of man.
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What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.
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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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Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
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Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.
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The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.
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It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.
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I consist of a little body and a soul.
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
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Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.
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Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
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Your task is to stand straight not to be held straight.
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