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So you know how things stand. ...

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

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Every moment think steadily as...

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

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He who does wrong does wrong a...

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

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If you do the task before you ...

If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold yo

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Be satisfied with your busines...

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

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Be not careless in deeds, nor ...

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

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Begin each day by telling your...

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness Ђ' all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil.

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Not to waste time on nonsense....

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

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Every man's life lies within t...

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

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No longer talk at all about th...

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

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Remember that what pulls the s...

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

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To live each day as though one...

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

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This is moral perfection: to l...

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

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If souls survive death for all...

If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that s

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All that is not eternal is ete...

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.

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Because other people are fools...

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

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I can at once become happy any...

I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

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To expect an impossibility is ...

To expect an impossibility is madness.

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Failing to understand the work...

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

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Nature insists on whatever ben...

Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.

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