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You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in tho...more

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You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the ...more

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke...more

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When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible?No. Then don’t ask the impossible. ...more

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From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the ...more

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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

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When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll ...more

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Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

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As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.

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If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spiri...more

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

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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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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

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The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.