"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
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"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution."
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"All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well."
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"Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie."
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"A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself."
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"Be content to seem what you really are."
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"The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'"
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"Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds."
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"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."
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"When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns."
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"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
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"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."
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"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."
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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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"What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee."
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"Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both."
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"God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to flow from himself into our bodies. And if you can act the same way, you will rid yourself of all suffering. For surely if you are not preoccupied with the body that encloses you, you will not trouble yourself about clothes, houses, fame, and other showy trappings."
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"Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn."
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"When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it."
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"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."
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