The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

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Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

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Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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