"Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them."
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"Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes."
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"Anger cannot be dishonest."
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"The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens."
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"Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest."
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"To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief"
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"It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle."
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"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."
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"A man's life is what his thoughts make of it."
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"...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come."
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"Observe constantly that all things take place by change."
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"How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead."
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"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."
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"The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well."
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"Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being."
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"Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you."
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"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love ... then make that day count!"
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"Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?"
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"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!"
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"Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind."
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