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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human by nature, endeared to each other.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.
If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).
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