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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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

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

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

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.

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

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

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