"I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed."
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"You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good."
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"If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons."
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"Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself."
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"Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all."
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"Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us."
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"Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this."
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"They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision."
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"Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily"
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"The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose."
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"Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment."
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"What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts."
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"Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?"
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"If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong."
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"A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse."
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"Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present."
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"It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you."
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"Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?"
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"A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow."
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"Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?"
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