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Try to be a man who clearly considered his experience and his skill in expounding philosophical principles as the smallest of his merits

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Present Is Same To All

For the present is the same to all, through that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment.

For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can anyone take this from him?

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Offence which is committed with pleasure is more blameable than which is committed with pain.The

Person who has been first wronged and through pain is compelled to be angry; but the other is moved by his own impulse to do wrong, being carried towards doing something by desire.

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The Soul Of A Man Does Violence To Itself

For to be vexed at anything that happens.

Turn towards someone with the intention of injuring.

When it's overpowered by pleasure or by pain.

Does or says anything insincerely and untruly.

When it allows any act of its own to be without an aim.

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