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Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

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

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

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

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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