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"We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life."
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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine."

"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
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"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."

"It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire."

"So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games."

"We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free."

"Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?"

"If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened."
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