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If you want to improve, be con...

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other

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We can't control the impressio...

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

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If you hear that someone is sp...

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'

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We do not choose our own parts...

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

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Lampis the ship owner, on bein...

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

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And have you not received facu...

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

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Fortune is an evil chain to th...

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

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It is better to advise than up...

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

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You will do the greatest servi...

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

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Consider first the nature of t...

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

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A soul that makes virtue its c...

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

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All human beings seek the happ...

All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

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What is learned without pleasu...

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

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It is your own convictions whi...

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

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Avoid banquets which are given...

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

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Events do not just happen, but...

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

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Be not diverted from your duty...

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

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What concerns me is not the wa...

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

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The soul that companies with v...

The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

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No man is able to make progres...

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

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