Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
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I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things thathappen to us come because we actually deserve them So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
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Whatever is in any way beautiful has its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it.
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
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