If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

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If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

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When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

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