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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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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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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.

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Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.