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"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bee."
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
"From Maximus I learned self-government, and not to be led aside by anything; and cheerfulness in all circumstances, as well as in illness."
"Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been."
"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."
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