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- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on…
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it…
- Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
- Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at…
- Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!
- Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn…
- 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…
- Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can…
- When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp…
- Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
- Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse.…
- In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.
- Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask…
- It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
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