"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
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"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."
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"If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not."
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"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
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"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle."
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"Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it."
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
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"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
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"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
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"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

