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“In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life’s purpose.”
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“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
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“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
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“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”
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“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.”
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“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well”
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“If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: "He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned"”
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“No man is free who is not a master of himself”
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“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
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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.”
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“The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”
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