If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it.

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  Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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  Throw away the thought of how you shall seem to others, and be content if you live the rest of your life as your nature wills.

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  Do not despise death, but be content with it, since this too is one of those things which nature wills.

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  Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good.

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  Retire into yourself. The reason that rules you is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquillity.

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  All those things which you wish to reach by a roundabout road, you can have now, if you do not refuse them to yourself.

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