"The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity."
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"Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it."
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"Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it."
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"Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?"
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"You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day."
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"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich."
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"Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept."
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"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."
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"The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors."
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"What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember."
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"Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil."
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"Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit."
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"Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony."
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"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances."
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"A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness."
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"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself."
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"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty."
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"Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole."
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"He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought."
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"He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad."
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