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striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.

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When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. Yo...more

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

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Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

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All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand ...more

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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the o...more

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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements i...more

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Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is...more

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Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

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You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

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The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

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The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

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The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.