"And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity."
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"The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else."
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"That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements."
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"As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value"
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"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers."
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"It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none."
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"God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose."
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"This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?"
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"When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life."
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"The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't."
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"It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?"
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"Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole."
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"He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers."
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"Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone."
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"Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself."
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"Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise."
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"Because other people are fools, must you be so too?"
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"Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal."
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"What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness."
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"Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all."
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