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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
LifeNatureHappinessQualityCare
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
LifePowerScienceMindNothingThy
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
ImpossibleThinkYouAccomplish
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
MindYouRunYourMuchLack
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
MenManValueRestOpinionsOthers
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
PeaceSoulManFindMoreOwn
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
LifeChangeThoughtsUniverseOur
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
LifeActLastExecuteThoughEvery
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
ServiceDeathMindHardReleaseUs
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
YouFindWillEverythingObserve
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
NatureChangeNew ThingsUniverse
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