"Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether."
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"A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope."
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"You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit."
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"Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing."
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"If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write."
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"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig."
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"Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will."
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"To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy."
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"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."
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"No man is free who is not master of himself."
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"Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire."
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"Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got."
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"Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task."
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"No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things."
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"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."
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"We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us."
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"Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths."
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"It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions."
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"God has made all men to be happy."
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"He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God."
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