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Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Only the educated are free.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

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.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

God has entrusted me with myself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Silence is safer than speech.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.