Book A
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Let your talk of God be renewed every day, rather than your food.
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Think of God more frequently than you breathe.
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If you always remember that whatever you are doing in the soul or in the body, God stands by as an inspector, you will never err (do wrong) in all your prayers and in all your acts, but you will have God dwelling with you.This is the doctrine of God being in man. See the Index.
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As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.Compare Lucretius ii. the beginning.
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Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
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As to the sick physicians are as saviours, so to those also who are wronged are the laws.
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The justest laws are those which are the truest.
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To yield to law and to a magistrate and to him who is wiser than yourself, is becoming.
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The things which are done contrary to law are the same as things which are not done.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is most difficult of all things.
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Time relieves the foolish from sorrow, but reason relieves the wise.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.Compare M. Antoninus, vi. 6.
