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A cucumber is bitter. - Throw it away. -
There briars in the road? - Turn aside from them.
This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?
It is like the officer who engaged a comic actor dismissing him from the stage. "But I have not played my five acts, only three." "True, but in life three acts can be the whole play."
...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.
...the infallible man does not exist.
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. (6:11)
Look always at the whole
Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promse, to lose your self-respect, to hate any person, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains about it.
"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."
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
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