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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much…
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a…
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Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but…
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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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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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
— Gautama Buddha
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Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
— Marcus Aurelius
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On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning…
— Epictetus
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Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again…
— Gautama Buddha
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Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river…
— Oren Lyons
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Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
— Elbert Hubbard
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If some disaster befalls you, say, Innaa Lillaahi wa innaa ilayhi raajioon (Truly, to Allah we belong and truly, to Him we…
— Babloo
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