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- Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
- Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
- A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
- Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
- When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that…
- In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any…
- To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and…
- Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these…
- Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power…
- If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up…
- Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
- Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
- A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one…
- Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.'…
- When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
- The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
- You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig,…
- Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is…
- Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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