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| 51 | — | — | Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. |
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| 52 | — | — | Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. |
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| 53 | — | — | Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. |
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| 54 | — | — | All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. |
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| 55 | — | — | That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before. |
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| 56 | — | — | Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. |
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| 57 | — | — | Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. |
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| 58 | — | — | Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason. |
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| 59 | — | — | At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’ |
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| 60 | — | — | At dawn of day, when you dislike being called, have this thought ready: I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?(Farquharson translation) |
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| 61 | — | — | You don't love yourself enough. Or you'd love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat. Do you have less respect for your own nature than the engraver does for engraving, the dancer for the dance, the miser for money or the social climber for status? When they're really possessed by what they do, they'd rather stop eating and sleeping than give up practicing their arts. Is helping others less valuable to you? Not worth your effort? |
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| 62 | — | — | How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility. |
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| 63 | — | — | To shrug it all off and wipe it clean--every annoyance and distraction--and reach utter stillness. Child's play. |
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| 64 | — | — | Some people, when they do someone a favor, are always looking for a chance to call it in. And some aren't, but they're still aware of it--still regard it as a debt. But others don't even do that. They're like a vine that produces grapes without looking for anything in return. |
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| 65 | — | — | A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. |
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| 66 | — | — | A horse at the end of the race...A dog when the hunt is over...A bee with its honey stored...And a human being after helping others. They don't make a fuss about it. They just go on to something else, as the vine looks forward to bearing fruit again in season. We should be like that. Acting almost unconsciously. |
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| 67 | — | — | The other reason is that what happens to the individual is a cause of well-being in what directs the world--of its well-being, its fulfillment, or its very existence, even. Because the whole is damaged if you cut away anything--anything at all--from its continuity and its coherence. Not only its parts, but its purposes. And that's what you're doing when you complain: hacking and destroying. |
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| 68 | — | — | Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human--however imperfectly--and fully embrace the pursuit that you've embarked on. |
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| 69 | — | — | Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee. |
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| 70 | — | — | The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. |
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| 71 | — | — | The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. |
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| 72 | — | — | It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. |
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| 73 | — | — | To seek what is impossible is madness: and it is impossible that the bad should not do something of this kind. |
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| 74 | — | — | Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. |
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| 75 | — | — | Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. |
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