Remember, however, that thou art formed by nature to bear everything, with respect to which it depends on thy own opinion to make it endurable and tolerable, by thinking that it is either thy interest or thy duty to do this.
This passage from his personal journal emphasizes the human capacity to endure all things through the power of one's own judgment and sense of duty.
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Do not then consider life a thing of any value. + For look to the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space.
How quickly all things disappear,--in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them.
One is that things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within.
All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.
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