Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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Everything--a horse, a vine--is created for some duty...For what task, then, were you yourself created? A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

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I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

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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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Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

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It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.

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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

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Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

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In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work'.

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

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Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

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You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

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