There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
viewImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
viewOnly the educated are free.
viewThe key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
viewIt is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
viewIt takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
viewMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
viewNeither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope
viewIn order to please others, we loose our hold on our lifes purpose.
viewHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
viewLet death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
viewNature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak
viewMen are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them
viewNature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak
viewNothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit
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