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He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.
Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.
Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.
If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.
Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.
He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.
Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.
Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial