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The inner master, when confron...

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.

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Ambition means tying your well...

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

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Think nothing profitable to yo...

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

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...if a man comes to his forti...

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

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...in the ways of Nature there...

...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

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In death, Alexander of Macedon...

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

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Once you have done a man a ser...

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

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...the sole thing of which any...

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

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We must press on then, in hast...

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

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Put an end once and for all to...

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

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Men are born for each other's ...

Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

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Letting go all else, cling to ...

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

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Look beneath the surface; let ...

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

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When you have trouble getting ...

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

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But if anything in thy own dis...

But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full act

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Men seek out retreats for them...

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.

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Accustom yourself not to be di...

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

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Don't go on discussing what a ...

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

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For any particular thing, ask:...

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

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All things of the body stream ...

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

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