Different things delight different people; but it is my delight to keep the ruling faculty sound without turning away either from any man or from any of the things which happen to men, but looking at and receiving all with welcome eyes and using everything according to its value.
From his personal reflections, describing his preferred way of living and engaging with the world.
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Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason.
That which is from fortune is not separated from nature or without an interweaving and involution with the things which are ordered by providence.
What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.
For he who yields to pain and he who yields to anger, both are wounded and both submit.
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