Is your cucumber bitter Throw it away. Are there briars in your path Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world' neither intolerable nor everlasting if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it)or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility....
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Let goodness go with the doing.
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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.
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To them that ask Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.
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As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
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Ask thyself, daily, to how many ill-minded persons thou hast shown a kind disposition.
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