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A man that is desirous to excel should endeavor it in those things that are in themselves most excellent. - [Excellence] A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other. - [Calamities] Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable. - [Death] All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. - [Philosophy] As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings. - [Conduct] Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief. - [Grief] Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power, and consequently should not be any part of your concern. - [Duty] Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them? - attributed to [Harmony : Motive : Praise] Common and vulgar people ascribe all ill that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one. - [Ills] Confident because of our caution. - [Caution : Confidence] Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. - [Contentment] Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. - [Cowardice] Crows pick out the eyes of the dead when they are no longer of any use. But flatterers destroy the souls of the living by blinding their eyes. - [Eyes] Difficulties are things that show what men are. - [Difficulties] 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. - [Destiny] Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. - [Envy] Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. - [Justice] Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle. - [Forbearance] First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. - [Speech] First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - [Self] Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. - [Contentment] Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. - [Freedom] God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. - [Conquest] I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day. - [Eternity] Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. - [Imagination] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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