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As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.
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Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
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To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.
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One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.
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Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
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Guard against idols - yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
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The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
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Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?
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Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
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Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.