"All is as thinking makes it so"
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"When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans."
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"Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself."
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"Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please."
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"Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose."
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"Give full attention and devotion to each act."
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"But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles."
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"Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement."
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"Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one."
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"Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before."
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"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."
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"Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?"
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"The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury."
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"... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused."
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"When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return."
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"From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition."
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"Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity."
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"A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy."
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"Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you."
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"Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse."
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