Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
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You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.
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This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.
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You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends while you live, and while you may, be good.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.
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In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present 'I am rising to a man's work.'
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