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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only the educated are free.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Place
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Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Power
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Peace
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- Great Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Personality
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you wish to be a writer, write.
- Hope
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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Dreaded
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
- Assured
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Enjoyment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Motivational
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Moderation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Safer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence is safer than speech.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Lying
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- Nov 07, 2020
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Passions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
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- Nov 07, 2020