"Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged."
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"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."
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"Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way."
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"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes."
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"The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived."
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"The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself."
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"We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it."
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"Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure."
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"Death is a release from and an end of all pains."
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"A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it."
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"They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites."
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"He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!"
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"Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous."
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"The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter."
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"This life is only a prelude to eternity."
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"To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss."
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"Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged"
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"One hand washes the other."
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"We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them."
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"What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then."
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