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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Only the educated are free.
Silence is safer than speech.
Confident because of our caution
God has entrusted me with myself.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
It is difficulties that show what men are.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.
When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
