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Love well,

Seek the good in all things,

Harm no others,

Think for yourself,

Take responsibility,

Respect nature,

Do your utmost,

Be informed,

Be kind,

Be courageous; at least, sincerely try.

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Seek always for the good that abides. There can be none except as the mind finds within itself; wisdom alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy, for then, even if some obstacle arises, it is only like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.

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It is irrational and poor-hearted not to seek good things for fear of losing them, for upon the same account we should not allow ourselves to seek wealth, glory or wisdom, since we may fear to be deprived of all these; nay, even virtue itself, than which there is no richer possession.

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When any person harms you, or speaks badly or you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition of its being his right. Now, it is not possible that he should follow what appears right to you, but what appears so to himself. Therefore, if he judges from a wrong appearance, he is the person hurt, since he is the person deceived.

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He who beguiles the way with stories, proverbs, riddles and songs, will make the journey light for his companion.

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The sincerest love is the love of food.

Stop short of your appetite.

Who eats too much does not know how to eat.

The rich eat when they will, the poor when they can.

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Some wicked men are rich, some good are poor, We will not change our virtue for their store; Virtue's a thing that none can take away, But money changes owners every day. 

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My prime of youth is a frost of cares, My feast of joy but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is a field of tares, My wealth no more than dreams of gain; My day is fled, yet I saw no sun; And though I live, my life is done.

My spring is past, but not yet sprung; The fruit is dead, with leaves still green; My youth is past, though I still young; I saw the world, myself unseen. My thread is cut, though not yet spun; And though I live, my life is done.

I sought for death, it was the womb; I looked for life, it was a shade; I tread the ground, which is my tomb; And now I die, though just new made The glass is full, yet my glass is run; And though I live, my life is done. 

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I am convinced that the human intellect makes its own difficulties, not using the true, sober and judicious methods of inquiry at our disposal, from which comes the manifold ignorance of things which causes innumerable mischiefs in the world.

Therefore let us try to see whether that commerce between the human mind and the nature of things, a commerce more precious than anything on earth, for it is nothing less than the search for truth, can be perfected; or if not, yet improved to a better condition than it now displays.

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As man and man, woman and woman, there is not - neither ought there to be - any difference between any two people in the eyes of a king or judge, for there is no difference between them in nature.

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The rich man is he who is satisfied with what he has.

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The Lacedaemonians, for their part, feeling sure that if they could once remove Pericles, they might impose what terms they pleased on the Athenians, sent them word that they should expel the 'pollution' with which Pericles on the mother's side was tainted, as Thucydides tells us, for her ancestors' part in expelling the son of Pisistratus;

But the issue proved quite contrary to what they expected; instead of bringing Pericles under suspicion, they raised him into yet greater credit and esteem with the citizens, as a man whom their enemies most hated and feared. 

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It is the just who are most pained by injustice, the brave who are most pained by cowardly actions, the temperate who are most pained by depravity. It is then the characteristic of a rightly ordered mind to be pleased at what is good and grieve at the reverse.

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The wise see the necessity of things, and by this they free themselves from distress.

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Have regard for desire: for, if you desire any of the things which are not under your control, you must necessarily be disappointed; and of those which are, and which it would be laudable to desire, do not desire them only, but pursue them.

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Everyone loves himself, not for any reward which such love may bring, but because he is dear to himself independently of anything else. But unless this feeling is transferred to another, true friendship will never be understood; for a true friend is a kind of second self.

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When things are even there never can be war.