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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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.
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.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
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