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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

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There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

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The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

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It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible...more

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A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the serv...more

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Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.