Meditations Quotes

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I endure labour; I do not need many things; when I have anything to do, I do it myself rather than by others.

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But he that preferreth before all things his rational part and spirit: he shall never lament and exclaim, never sigh.

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Those things only that are in his own power are the objects of his employments, and his thoughts are ever taken up with those things.

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Keep off carefully all plausible shows and colors of external appearance, that thou mayest be able to discern things rightly.

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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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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

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Every man's happiness depends from himself, and yet behold, thou dost make thy happiness to consist in the souls and conceits of other men.

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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

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Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

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Every man's happiness depends from himself, and yet behold, thou dost make thy happiness to consist in the souls and conceits of other men.

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Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

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Take care not to feel towards the inhuman, as they feel towards men.

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It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

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Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

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Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil.

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Thou sufferest this justly: for thou choosest rather to become good tomorrow than to be good today.

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Anything that is of an inferior nature�applause, honor, riches, or pleasures�should not be suffered to contest with that which is good.

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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.

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Do not put off those duties, which we owe to our friends and acquaintances (to everyone in his kind) under pretense of urgent affairs.

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Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable?