Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Marcus Aurelius
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
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For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
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Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life
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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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A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something
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