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Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.
You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.
A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.
Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.
Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.
Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.
Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.
Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.
Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse.
The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.
Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.