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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

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What need of prompt or hint when it is open to yourself to discern what needs to be done - and, if you can see your way, to follow it with kind but un...more

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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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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

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No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!

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Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love

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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

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In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I a...more

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Salvation: to see each thing for what it is— its nature and its purpose.To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.What els...more

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That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements ...more

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We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease ...more

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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

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Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.