Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.
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How powerful is man He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
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The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury.
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As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.
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Let goodness go with the doing.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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