You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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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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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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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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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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What we do in life ripples in eternity.

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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

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

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