“To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.”
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“Materials are indifferent, but the use which we make of them is not a matter of indifference.”
“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”
“It was for this that I've been training myself, it was for this that I was practising.”
“Do you suppose that you can do the things you do now, and yet be a philosopher?”
“Little is needed to ruin and upset everything, only a slight aberration from reason.”
“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”
“If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.”
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”