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Constantly contemplate the wh...

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

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Is your cucumber bitter? Thro...

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

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This is moral perfection: to ...

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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Find joy in simplicity, self-...

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

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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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Dress not thy thoughts in too...

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

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Live out your life in truth a...

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

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You are a little soul bearing...

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

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To my great-grandfather I owe...

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

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Consider, for example, and yo...

Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

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It is not the body, nor the p...

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

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When men are inhuman, take ca...

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

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Your mind will be like its ha...

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

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Look well into thyself; there...

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

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A great estate is a great dis...

A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

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No one wearies of benefits re...

No one wearies of benefits received.

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Take full account of what Exc...

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

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All that is harmony for you, ...

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

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Let no act be done without pu...

Let no act be done without purpose.

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Give thyself time to learn so...

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

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