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Marcus Aurelius

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A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.
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To love is to act.
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War is no solution to peace.
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When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
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Divine spirit flows through heart
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Boring people live boring lives.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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For nothing [...] is more heavenly than to resist and to yield; to yield and to resist.
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If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
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There is no one right way.

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Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise ...
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations ...
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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Be content to seem what you really are.
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with ...
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The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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Each day provides its own gifts.
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to lo...
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher...
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Your life is what your thoughts make it.
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the go...
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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits...
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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, th...
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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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Where a man can live, he can also live well.
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of ...
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself go...
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Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good...
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
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In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushli...
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them...
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that tim...
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
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He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'Prefer the hard.' This holds g...
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Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each ...
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Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against ma...
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and...
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Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is unc...
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A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
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Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
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How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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Each day provides its own gifts
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the n...
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, ...
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatu...
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grape...
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
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Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;...
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason ...
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to...
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imaginatio...
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He misses what is meant by epigram - who thinks it only frivolous flimflam
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'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard
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I would rather smell of nothing than of perfume
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Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away ...
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Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day
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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution
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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday
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The guest at the lower end of the middle couch, with three hairs on his bald head and his scalp stre...
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Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it th...
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The passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours
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The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past
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You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents
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Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thu...
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Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your...
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You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim
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When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A...
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It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next mor...
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
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Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
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Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret abou...
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You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it
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Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
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How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
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Nothing in nature is evil.
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It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
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I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
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If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
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To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
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The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
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Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
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Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
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You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
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The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
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Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
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I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
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