"Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content."
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"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission."
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"Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind."
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"Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine."
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"Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region."
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"Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."
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"Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away."
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"The universe is transformation: life is opinion."
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"Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe."
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"This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense."
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"Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?"
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"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them."
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"So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes."
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"If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion."
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"There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men."
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"Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears."
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"Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away."
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"The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere"
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"No one wearies of benefits received."
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"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."
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