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It is difficulties that show what men are.
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For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.
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If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand:
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Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men. (3).
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Thou shalt not blame or flatter any. (6).
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Refuse altogether to take an oath if you can, if not, as far as may be. (166).
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice.... None is a slave whose acts are free.
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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
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Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
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The anger of an ape--the threat of a flatterer:--these deserve equal regard.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.
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Think of God more often than thou breathest.
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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
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Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
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Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.
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You are a little soul, carrying a corpse.
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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
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The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
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It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings.
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Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall.
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The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant.
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Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
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There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
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In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
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