When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember, never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone, but God is within, and your genius is within


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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right...
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Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus hims...
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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of ...
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Thus Epicurus also, when he designs to destroy the natural fellowship of mankind, at the same time m...
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of t...
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If you wish to be a writer, write.
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
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Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
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A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.
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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
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You become what you give your attention to.
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Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy...
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