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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.  
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.  
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher ...  
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with wh...  
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and lo...  
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life...  
Anger cannot be dishonest.  
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks ...  
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius com...  
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects dif...  
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible fo...  
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that i...  
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin ...  
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desire...  
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.  
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready t...  
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.  
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in i...  
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.  
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe caref...  
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a p...  
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.  
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall...  
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you t...  
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes o...   Anger
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says...  
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.  
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you,...  
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never begin...  
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's act...  
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to l...  
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have alr...  
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble u...  
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.  
Men exist for the sake of one another.  
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory...  
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break ...  
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, wi...  
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.  
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investiga...   Science
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his ...  
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom ...  
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your ev...  
Poverty is the mother of crime.  
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.  
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of...  
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.  
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.  
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.   Life
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: ...  
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to es...  
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.  
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.  
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different e...  
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.  
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that eve...  
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; ...  
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which i...  
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee make...  
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born thin...  
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for th...  
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's...  
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it i...  
Where a man can live, he can also live well.  
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and ...  
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man l...  
Your life is what your thoughts make it.