"Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others."
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"He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life."
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"In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence"
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"A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season."
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"Receive without conceit, release without struggle."
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"The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct."
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"He does not write at all whose poems no man reads"
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"Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence? But Gods there are, undoubtedly, and they regard human affairs; and have put it wholly in our power, that we should not fall into what is truly evil."
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"It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet."
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"Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly."
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"Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig."
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"Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display."
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"Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith."
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"Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be."
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"It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it."
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"All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer."
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"If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable."
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"This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal."
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"Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday."
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"Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind."
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