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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

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People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

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Out of the frying pan into the fire.

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