It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

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A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

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Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

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You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

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The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

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Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

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All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously.

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All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

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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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