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If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
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Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
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Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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God has made all men to be happy.
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True instruction is this: -to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole. (26).
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Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
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There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,-that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all.
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
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When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.
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It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
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From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.
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