When a man irritates you, know that it is your own opinion which has irritated you.

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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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  If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish by others.

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  Be not elated at any excellence which belongs to another.

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  Are you not ashamed that you put your mind in the power of anyone you meet, so that if he reviles you it is disturbed and troubled?

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