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Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.
All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'
Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!
Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.
It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.
Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.
Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.
To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.
Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig.
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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.
Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
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.
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.
It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]
Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.