"People exist for one another."
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"I consist of a little body and a soul."
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"We are born for cooperation"
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"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature."
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"All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself."
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"If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher."
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"The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works."
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"That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not"."
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"The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do."
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"Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art"
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"Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper."
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"The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason."
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"My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities."
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"And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances."
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"Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them."
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"Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse."
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"Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face."
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"Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too."
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"No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aërial power for him who is able to respire it."
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"Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life."
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