"The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor."
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"No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished."
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"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
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"Give yourself a gift: the present moment."
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."
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"When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind."
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"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
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"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also."
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"Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour."
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"If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity."
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"If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it."
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
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"Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune."
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"Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus."
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"Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?"
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"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."
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"Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task."
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"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
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"Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized."
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