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“I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.”
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“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
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“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”
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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
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“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
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“In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life’s purpose.”
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“To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.”
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“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”
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“If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.”
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“It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”
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“I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?”
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