We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Only the educated are free.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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