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Be simple and modest in your deportment, and treat with indifference whatever lies between virtue and vice. - [Simplicity] Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all. - [Soul] He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers. - [Solitude] Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there. - [Self-reliance] Our dispositions will be suitable to that which we most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the colour and complexion of its own thoughts. - [Thought] Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then with a continuous series of thoughts as these: that where a man can live, there he can also live well. - [Thought] The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - [Thought] Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. - [Quality]
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