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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

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You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last.

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events that go before are soon covered by those that come after.

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Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

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Don’t let outward appearances mislead you into thinking that someone with more prestige, power or some other distinction must on that account be happy.

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I say that virtue is more valuable than wealth to the same degree that eyes are more valuable than fingernails.

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Either you’re going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.

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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

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Passions stem from frustrated desire.

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Someone bathes in haste; don’t say he bathes badly, but in haste. Someone drinks a lot of wine; don’t say he drinks badly, but a lot. Until you know their reasons, how do you know that their actions are vicious?

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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in your power. Take away then, when you choose, your opinion, and like a mariner who has rounded the headland, you will find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay.

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The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose something he does not already possess.

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Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.

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He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.

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Who exactly are these people that you want to be admired by? Aren’t they the same people you are in the habit of calling crazy? And is this your life ambition, then – to win the approval of lunatics?

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Have I been made for this, to lie under the blankets and keep myself warm?

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No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

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In the morning, when you rise unwillingly, let this thought be present: I am rising to the work of a human being.

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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

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As if you had died and your life had extended only to this present moment, use the surplus that is left to you to live from this time onward according to nature.

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Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are one.

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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 at any moment.

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