"It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements."
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"The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up."
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"Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance."
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"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
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"Leave other people's mistakes where they lie."
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"Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason."
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"From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil."
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"Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power."
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"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."
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"He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely."
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"Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to."
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"Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good."
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"Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined."
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"In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents."
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"I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself."
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"The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time."
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"If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth."
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"In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious."
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"The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere."
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"Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension."
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