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All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it
When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid
We are not to lead events, but to follow them
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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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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