If you are given the part of a beggar, play that part well too.

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  Your duty is to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

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  Do not spend too much time on the body; let your chief care be the mind.

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  Behave as at a banquet: take what is offered to you, and do not reach out for what has not yet come.

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  Take care of what you have been given as of something entrusted to you, not as something that is yours forever.

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  Do not call yourself a philosopher; show your principles by your actions.

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  Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes, but most of all death.

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