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It is not right to vex ourselves at things, For they care not about it.
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It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.
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From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.
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From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
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Book VII
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About fame... Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
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Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.
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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
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Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.
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Variant Translation: Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.
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It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
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Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?
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No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.
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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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..If you are troubled by external circumstances, it is not the circumstances that trouble you, but your own perception of them - and they are in your power to change at any time.
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
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Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!
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Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
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