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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
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It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.
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It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens."
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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
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When you have decided that a thing ought to be done, and are doing it, never shun being seen doing it, even though the multitude should be likely to judge the matter amiss. For if you are not acting rightly, shun the act itself; if rightly, however, why fear misplaced censure? (172).
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
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Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.
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Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
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Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.
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Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
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