"What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite."
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"We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good."
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"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle."
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"Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder."
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"Nothing great comes into being all at once."
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"You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?"
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"He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much."
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"It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens"
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"It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance"
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"Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight."
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"Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back."
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"You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses."
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"When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?"
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"If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men."
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"Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot."
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"Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence."
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"Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment."
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"Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!"
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"We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence."
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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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