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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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

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Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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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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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

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There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

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Give yourself a gift: the present moment.

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Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

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Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.

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