"A man should be upright, not kept upright."
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"Love the people with whom fate brings you together"
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"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
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"We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive."
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"I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm."
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"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."
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"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."
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"Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours."
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""Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?"
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"Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives."
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"Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you."
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"Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one."
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"Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job."
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"Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not."
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"You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."
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"Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible."
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"Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher."
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"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."
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"Poverty is the mother of crime."
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"Nothing is worth doing pointlessly."
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