Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

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

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Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

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You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.

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Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

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Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

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Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

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