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- I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
- Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who…
- For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within…
- Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
- Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest…
- Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the…
- A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
- If any man can convince me and bring home to me that which I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for…
- Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.
- In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
- Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return…
- One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another…
- A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
- The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
- Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
- Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
- Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
- A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.
- Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
- A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
- I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
- Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober,…
- Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens…
- For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember…
- Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let…
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